{"id":624803,"date":"2019-07-22T05:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T09:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624803"},"modified":"2019-07-22T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T09:01:50","slug":"as-nasas-apollo-space-program-grew-alabama-was-pressured-to-desegregate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624803","title":{"rendered":"As NASA&#039;s Apollo Space Program Grew, Alabama Was Pressured To Desegregate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of jobs were created for the Apollo space program. As the program ramped up, leaders in Huntsville, Alabama, realized they needed to desegregate to attract talent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-28.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/22\/744023616\/as-nasas-apollo-space-program-grew-alabama-was-pressured-to-desegregate?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As NASA&#8217;s Apollo Space Program Grew, Alabama Was Pressured To Desegregate<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of jobs were created for the Apollo space program. As the program ramped up, leaders in Huntsville, Alabama, realized they needed to desegregate to attract talent. &#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}