{"id":14866,"date":"2016-12-08T22:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2016-12-08T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:50:03","slug":"john-glenn-first-american-to-orbit-the-earth-passes-away-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/john-glenn-first-american-to-orbit-the-earth-passes-away-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, passes away at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2016\/12\/08\/john-glenn-first-american-in-orbit-passes-away-at-95\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2012-1481-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John H. Glenn Jr., a decorated combat veteran and test pilot who gained worldwide fame as the first American to orbit the Earth, went on to become a U.S. senator and, in the autumn of his life, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery, has died. He was 95 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn had been hospitalized at the Ohio State University James Cancer Center. Details of his illness were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the confirmation of his death, NASA tweeted: \u201cWe are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero. Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2016\/12\/08\/john-glenn-first-american-in-orbit-passes-away-at-95\/\">John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, passes away at 95 \u2013 Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John H. Glenn Jr., a decorated combat veteran and test pilot who gained worldwide fame as the first American to orbit the Earth, went on to become a U.S. senator and, in the autumn of his life, returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery, has died. He was 95 years old. Glenn had been hospitalized at the Ohio State University James Cancer Center. Details of his illness were not disclosed. Soon after the confirmation of his death, NASA tweeted: \u201cWe are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero. Godspeed, John Glenn. Ad astra.\u201d Source: John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, passes away at 95 \u2013 Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2297,1205],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-john-glenn","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}