{"id":930,"date":"2001-05-07T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2001-05-07T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/05\/07\/nypostcom-national-news-backyard-astronauts\/"},"modified":"2001-05-07T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2001-05-07T13:17:21","slug":"nypostcom-national-news-backyard-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/05\/07\/nypostcom-national-news-backyard-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPOST.COM National News: BACKYARD ASTRONAUT&#8217;S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypostonline.com\/news\/nationalnews\/29858.htm\">NYPOST.COM National News: BACKYARD ASTRONAUT&#8217;S BID FOR GLORY By LANCE LAYTNER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;May 6, 2001 &#8212; BEND, Ore. &#8211; Self-taught rocket scientist Brian Walker plans to shoot himself into space this fall in a $250,000 rocket he built in his back yard.<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years, &#8220;Rocket Guy,&#8221; as he&#8217;s known locally, has been constructing Earthstar 1, the rocket he hopes will carry him to the edge of space and then bring him back to Earth alive. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYPOST.COM National News: BACKYARD ASTRONAUT&#8217;S BID FOR GLORY By LANCE LAYTNER &#8220;&#8230;May 6, 2001 &#8212; BEND, Ore. &#8211; Self-taught rocket scientist Brian Walker plans to shoot himself into space this fall in a $250,000 rocket he built in his back yard. For the past two years, &#8220;Rocket Guy,&#8221; as he&#8217;s known locally, has been constructing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}