{"id":116558,"date":"2017-02-20T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116558"},"modified":"2017-02-20T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:42:51","slug":"feb-20-anniversary-john-glenns-earth-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116558","title":{"rendered":"Feb 20, anniversary John Glenn&#8217;s historic earth orbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116559\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GlennJohn-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GlennJohn-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GlennJohn-274x175.jpg 274w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/GlennJohn.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Since Glenn&#8217;s death on Dec. 8 at the age of 95, devotees have visited an exhibit of his artifacts at Ohio State University, backers have begun fundraising for an observatory and astronomy park in Glenn&#8217;s name and work has begun on a 7-foot statue in his likeness.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn&#8217;s storied life included time as a military test pilot and U.S. senator, but it was the history-making Mercury mission that propelled Glenn and his spacecraft Friendship 7 into the history books.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary of the flight is Monday.<\/p>\n<p>During 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds on Feb. 20, 1962, the capsule circled the Earth three times, making Glenn the first American to orbit Earth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 John Glenn is continuing to inspire 55 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth. Since Glenn&#8217;s death on Dec. 8 at the age of 95, devotees have visited an exhibit of his artifacts at Ohio State University, backers have begun fundraising for an observatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116562,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116558\/revisions\/116562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}