{"id":1114,"date":"2007-05-03T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2007-05-03T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:14:30","slug":"on-wally-schirra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"On Wally Schirra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/space\/05\/03\/schirra.obit\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">Wally Schirra, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, passed away earlier today.<\/a>  He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say, I actually don&#8217;t know much about Schirra except that he was the only astronaut to fly on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.  And that Lance Henricksen portrayed him in <i>The Right Stuff<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury 7 now number two.  Raise a glass, people, for Wally Schirra, a man who truly had The Right Stuff. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wally Schirra, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, passed away earlier today. He was 84. I hate to say, I actually don&#8217;t know much about Schirra except that he was the only astronaut to fly on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. And that Lance Henricksen portrayed him in The Right Stuff. The Mercury 7 now number<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1114\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Wally Schirra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4111,193],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-obituary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}