{"id":35175,"date":"2013-10-11T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35175"},"modified":"2013-10-11T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:08:40","slug":"scott-carpenter-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/35175","title":{"rendered":"Scott Carpenter R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35177\" alt=\"Scott Carpenter R.I.P.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scott_carpenter1.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"705\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35176\" alt=\"Scott Carpenter R.I.P.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/scott_carpenter2.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scott Carpenter\u0019s Web site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottcarpenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">M. Scott Carpenter<\/a>, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical problems and ended with the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived a landing far from the target site, died on 10th October in Denver. He was 88 and one of the last two surviving astronauts of America\u2019s original space program, Project Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/11\/us\/scott-carpenter-mercury-astronaut-who-orbited-earth-dies-at-88.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical problems and ended with the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived a landing far from the target site, died on 10th October in Denver. He was 88 and one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3,88],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35180,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175\/revisions\/35180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}