{"id":647194,"date":"2020-02-23T19:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647194"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:49:04","slug":"daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647194","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil &#039;Mad&#039; Mike Hughes Killed In Crash Of Homemade Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ap_20054757762803_wide-ef422d22f14049649ddd03eb3b8eac33b1579956.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Mad&quot; Mike Hughes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Hughes promoted himself as believing that the Earth was flat. He launched in homemade rockets with the goal of eventually flying to the edge of space to see for himself.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Mercedes Blackehart\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/npr-rss-pixel-4.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/23\/808645524\/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-killed-in-crash-of-homemade-rocket?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daredevil &#8216;Mad&#8217; Mike Hughes Killed In Crash Of Homemade Rocket<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Hughes promoted himself as believing that the Earth was flat. He launched in homemade rockets with the goal of eventually flying to the edge of space to see for&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-647194","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\/647194","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=647194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647194\/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=647194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}