{"id":500,"date":"2007-01-17T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2007-01-25T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T05:21:46","slug":"interview-with-neil-degrasse-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/NeildeGrasseTyson.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I just stumbled across this January 5th, 2007\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cache.libsyn.com\/sciencefriday\/scifri-2007010511.mp3\">interview<\/a> with Neil\u00a0deGrasse Tyson.\u00a0 He and the interviewer\u00a0briefly discuss the (then) upcoming episode on Nova Science Now about the Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion\u00a0concerning the Space Elevator is just past the midway point of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy listening to Dr. Tyson; his enthusiasm is quite infectious.\u00a0\u00a0Interesting facts about Dr. Tyson include the tidbits that an asteroid (13123 Tyson) is named after him and that in 2000, he was voted the &#8220;Sexiest Astrophysicist alive&#8221; by People magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled across this January 5th, 2007\u00a0interview with Neil\u00a0deGrasse Tyson.\u00a0 He and the interviewer\u00a0briefly discuss the (then) upcoming episode on Nova Science Now about the Space Elevator. The discussion\u00a0concerning the Space Elevator is just past the midway point of the interview. I enjoy listening to Dr. Tyson; his enthusiasm is quite infectious.\u00a0\u00a0Interesting facts about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}