{"id":2270,"date":"2009-04-02T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2009-04-02T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:11:33","slug":"on-space-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2270","title":{"rendered":"On Space Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We must take a moment to salute a true hero, Space Bat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/03\/17\/the-discovery-bats-fate-is-confirmed\/\" target=\"_blank\">On March 19th, a bat affixed himself to the space shuttle <i>Discovery<\/i> and took off into space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was, sadly, also his last flight into space.<\/p>\n<p>A tribute video to a true space pioneer:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ibq2IwznCgc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ibq2IwznCgc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-bat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">memorial website in tribute to Space Bat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We salute you, Space Bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must take a moment to salute a true hero, Space Bat. On March 19th, a bat affixed himself to the space shuttle Discovery and took off into space. It was, sadly, also his last flight into space. A tribute video to a true space pioneer: And a memorial website in tribute to Space Bat.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2270\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Space Bat&#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":[4138,129],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-nasa","tag-space-shuttle","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}