{"id":18435,"date":"2016-12-08T01:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18435"},"modified":"2016-12-08T01:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:03:28","slug":"get-well-sen-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18435","title":{"rendered":"Get well, Sen. Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Space Shuttle Discovery 1998 launch with John Glenn\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14-3HT9NGXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just heard that former U.S. Sen. John Glenn is in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s 95 years of age now. He has lived an extraordinary life.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Korean War; test pilot; astronaut selected among the first men to fly into space; the first American to orbit planet Earth; U.S. senator; a return to space on the space shuttle Discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The video here chronicles the launch of Glenn&#8217;s second trip into space. It took place in 1998, 36 years after he flew those three orbits aboard the Mercury spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>I get choked up every time I hear the space flight communicator announce the launch of &#8220;six astronaut heroes and one American legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get well, Sen. Glenn.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard that former U.S. Sen. John Glenn is in the hospital. He&#8217;s 95 years of age now. He has lived an extraordinary life. Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Korean War; test pilot; astronaut selected among the first men to fly into space; the first American to orbit planet Earth; U.S. senator; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get well, Sen. Glenn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2533,6719,3182,4347],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-john-glenn","tag-mercury-astronauts","tag-nasa","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18436,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions\/18436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}