{"id":1581,"date":"2013-08-30T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T06:19:14","slug":"james-may-talks-about-the-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"James May talks about the Space Elevator&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_JamesMay.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"200\"  width=\"145\" \/>James May (aka &#8220;Captain Slow&#8221;), the English journalist, recently posted on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/columns\/head-squeeze\" target=\"_blank\">HeadSqueeze<\/a> BBC column an article about the advantages a Space Elevator could bring to humanity.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very good video and well worth the 7+ minutes of your time to view it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The article and video are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20130808-can-we-build-a-lift-into-space\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hat tip &#8211; Peter Swan)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James May (aka &#8220;Captain Slow&#8221;), the English journalist, recently posted on his HeadSqueeze BBC column an article about the advantages a Space Elevator could bring to humanity.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very good video and well worth the 7+ minutes of your time to view it&#8230; The article and video are here&#8230; . . (Hat tip &#8211; [&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-1581","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\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}