{"id":347,"date":"2003-10-15T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=347"},"modified":"2003-10-15T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T23:10:13","slug":"weird-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Weird spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> find it a kind of weird: the first Chinese manned spaceflight was a great succes when the Chinese astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HDTO5J4IF41DGCRBAEOCFEY?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3622772\">was proudly shown to the media after touchdown<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, most media only have a handful of pictures and a just a couple of lines of text. Reuters only has 2 sentences in its news item. CNN comes with a longer story, but that&#8217;s basically because they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/space\/10\/15\/china.launch\/index.html\">generally manage to add more irrelevant text<\/a> to their newsitems. Striking part:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Earlier this week state-run CCTV cancelled plans to broadcast live television pictures of the launch on the advice of &#8220;space experts.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it a kind of weird: the first Chinese manned spaceflight was a great succes when the Chinese astronaut was proudly shown to the media after touchdown. However, most media only have a handful of pictures and a just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=347\">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\/347"}],"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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}