{"id":346,"date":"2003-10-14T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=346"},"modified":"2003-10-14T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T01:29:00","slug":"china-and-their-first-man-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"China and their first man in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> see that it&#8217;s making headlines, but all newsagencies are reporting that China has started its manned spaceflight project. Right now at this very moment. There&#8217;s hardly any news coming through, since the official Chinese news agency appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3614347\">tightlipped about the whole event<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>So 42 years after the Russians sent a man into space, the Chinese have managed to do the same. And for some kind of reason, I keep thinking about those thousands of games of Civilization I played. The space race? Who&#8217;s the first to launch a ship to <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that it&#8217;s making headlines, but all newsagencies are reporting that China has started its manned spaceflight project. Right now at this very moment. There&#8217;s hardly any news coming through, since the official Chinese news agency appears to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}