{"id":1388,"date":"2010-05-08T23:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T06:04:53","slug":"garage-inventors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Garage Inventors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/GarageInventors.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_GarageInventors.jpg\" width=\"145\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/a>A few days ago, NPR radio broadcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/science\/garage-inventors1963.html\" target=\"_blank\">a segment<\/a> on &#8216;Garage Inventors&#8217;.\u00a0 Three of them were discussed and one was our very own Brian Turner &#8211; Captain and Fearless Leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a> Climber \/ Power-Beaming team.<\/p>\n<p>The segment is about 9 minutes long as is well worth listening to.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/science\/garage-inventors1963.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The photo thumbnail is of Brian working in his garage.\u00a0 This was the cover of the July 1, 2007 NYTimes Magazine.\u00a0 Click on it to see a full-size version.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip for the NPR broadcast to Susan Seichrist &#8211; the designer of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1111\" target=\"_blank\">blog&#8217;s masthead<\/a> and, most definitely, Ben Shelef&#8217;s better half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, NPR radio broadcast a segment on &#8216;Garage Inventors&#8217;.\u00a0 Three of them were discussed and one was our very own Brian Turner &#8211; Captain and Fearless Leader of the Kansas City Space Pirates Climber \/ Power-Beaming team. The segment is about 9 minutes long as is well worth listening to.\u00a0 Check it [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}