{"id":1182,"date":"2009-04-10T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:33:53","slug":"why-you-should-join-isec-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Why you should join ISEC &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/ISECSidebarLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"205\" height=\"134\"  \/>In the continuation of the series &#8220;Why you should join ISEC&#8221; (Part 1 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1177\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and Part 2 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1180\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), I present to you what <em>David Letterman<\/em> might say if he was asked &#8220;Why should someone join ISEC?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>David Letterman&#8217;s* Top Five Reasons to join ISEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#5]\u00a0 You want to know where your mother\u2019s yarn has gone.<br \/>\n#4]\u00a0 Bragging rights \u2013 be the first on your block to be a card carrying member<br \/>\n#3]\u00a0 Great Pick-up lines at Cocktail Party<br \/>\n#2]\u00a0 Develops your unassailable credibility as a rocket scientist<br \/>\nand<br \/>\n#1]\u00a0 Self Satisfaction at furthering space exploration \u2013 Actually you ARE!<\/p>\n<p>(*With thanks to Peter Swan and apologies to Mr. Letterman&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the continuation of the series &#8220;Why you should join ISEC&#8221; (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here), I present to you what David Letterman might say if he was asked &#8220;Why should someone join ISEC?&#8221;: . David Letterman&#8217;s* Top Five Reasons to join ISEC #5]\u00a0 You want to know where your mother\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","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=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}