{"id":1140,"date":"2009-01-13T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2009-01-13T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T05:43:43","slug":"michael-laine-and-a-short-history-of-liftport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Michael Laine and a short history of LiftPort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"73\" src=\"\/media\/mlaine.jpg\"  height=\"73\" style=\"width: 73px; height: 73px\" \/>On the Liftport blog, Michael Laine put up a post detailing (in a very abbreviated fashion) his adventures (to date) with trying to get a Space Elevator built.\u00a0 This post; <a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1302\" title=\"Permanent Link: 6 years condensed to 2 pages - LiftPort in hindsight\">6 years condensed to 2 pages &#8211; LiftPort in hindsight<\/a>, is very interesting and well worth your time.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=1329\">commented<\/a> about his views on the Social Media; Twitter, Facebook, Flickr,\u00a0etc&#8230;\u00a0 And, as he is now in charge of Public Outreach for the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), you&#8217;ll be seeing ISEC being promulgated in many of these new web 2.0 platforms.\u00a0 Michael has been nominated for a Twitter Shorty Award &#8211; if you want to vote for him, you can do so <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shortyawards.com\/user\/mlaine\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s just nice to see the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/\">LiftPort blog<\/a> active again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Liftport blog, Michael Laine put up a post detailing (in a very abbreviated fashion) his adventures (to date) with trying to get a Space Elevator built.\u00a0 This post; 6 years condensed to 2 pages &#8211; LiftPort in hindsight, is very interesting and well worth your time. Michael has also commented about his views [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}