{"id":1187,"date":"2009-04-16T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-04-16T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:19:32","slug":"5-questions-cabling-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;5 questions &#8211; cabling to Space&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/_tn_SpacePiratesNewLogo.jpg\" width=\"119\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"84\"  \/>Brian Turner, captain of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a>, sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnersprings.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/16\/five-questions-cabling-space\/#comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to a recent article about his appearance in front of an eighth-grade science class.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that Brian is recruiting the next generation of engineers so that his team can enjoy continued Games dominance in the American midwest&#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/BrianTurnerAnswersQuestions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_BrianTurnerAnswersQuestions.jpg\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"133\"  \/><\/a>Brian sent me this explanation of his visit: <em>&#8220;Bonner Springs is a suburb of Kansas City with a population of about 7,000. A Middle School teacher asked me to come speak to the kids. He also asked the local paper to come and see what was going on.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Certainly his sponsors have to be very happy with the picture accompanying the story.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the picture thumbnail of Brian to see a larger version of the picture or else visit the story) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Turner, captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates, sent me this link to a recent article about his appearance in front of an eighth-grade science class.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that Brian is recruiting the next generation of engineers so that his team can enjoy continued Games dominance in the American midwest&#8230; ? Brian sent me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","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=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}