{"id":205,"date":"2006-05-01T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T04:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T22:09:51","slug":"about-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?page_id=205","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website is a compendium of all space-elevator-related items \/ postings \/ announcements \/ blog-entries \/ artwork \/ interviews \/ etc. that I have been able to locate on the Internet and elsewhere.&nbsp; It will also contain opinions (expert and not) about various aspects of Space Elevator development.<\/p>\n<p><em>SpaceElevatorBlog.com<\/em>&nbsp;was &#8220;born&#8221; on April 1st, 2006.&nbsp;&nbsp;Postings dated before then are artificially dated&nbsp;with the day after the original&nbsp;item was posted on the Internet.&nbsp;&nbsp;Postings dated on or after April 1st, 2006 were posted on the indicated date\/time.<\/p>\n<h2>About Me<\/h2>\n<p><!-- staticPage -->My name is Ted Semon.&nbsp; I am&nbsp;a retired&nbsp;Software Engineer and&nbsp;I have been fascinated by the concept of a Space Elevator ever since I read Sir Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s <em>The Fountains of Paradise.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>I want to contribute, somehow, someway, to making&nbsp;the first Space Elevator a reality.&nbsp; This Blog is&nbsp;my&nbsp;initial contribution to this effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I believe that humanity MUST take all steps necessary to explore and colonize places outside our homeworld.&nbsp;&nbsp;I hope that it\u2019s we Americans who will lead the&nbsp;way, but in the final analysis it doesn\u2019t matter who does it, just as long as it happens.&nbsp; I think a functioning Space Elevator, hopefully many of them, will go a long way towards making this happen.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to email me, you can do so at:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Ted [AT] SpaceElevatorBlog.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is a compendium of all space-elevator-related items \/ postings \/ announcements \/ blog-entries \/ artwork \/ interviews \/ etc. that I have been able to locate on the Internet and elsewhere.&nbsp; It will also contain opinions (expert and not) about various aspects of Space Elevator development. SpaceElevatorBlog.com&nbsp;was &#8220;born&#8221; on April 1st, 2006.&nbsp;&nbsp;Postings dated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}