{"id":17091,"date":"2016-12-09T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17091"},"modified":"2016-12-09T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:43:43","slug":"john-glenn-first-us-astronaut-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/john-glenn-first-us-astronaut-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"John Glenn, First US Astronaut to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth, has died at age 95, officials said. Glenn passed away Thursday, more than a week after being admitted to the Ohio State University&#8217;s James Cancer Hospital. The John Glenn College of Public Affairs at OSU made the announcement. U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement saying&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTg3NzE=&#038;c=Mzg4NjUxMjc=&#038;fuid=MjQyNzc1ODg=&#038;s=repubhub&#038;showFirstImage=true&#038;showDate=false\" height=\"1500\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE OR FIRST IMAGE, change \"showDate=true\" or \"showFirstImage=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth, has died at age 95, officials said. Glenn passed away Thursday, more than a week after being admitted to the Ohio State University&#8217;s James Cancer Hospital. The John Glenn College of Public Affairs at OSU made the announcement. U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/john-glenn-first-us-astronaut-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-95\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Glenn, First US Astronaut to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[779,142,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17092,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions\/17092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}