{"id":870,"date":"2007-11-16T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T18:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2007-11-16T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T18:59:05","slug":"kansas-city-space-pirates-appear-on-their-local-abc-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Space Pirates appear on their local ABC Affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"119\" src=\"\/media\/KCSpacePiratesLogo.jpg\"  height=\"85\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 85px\" \/>Brian Turner, captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates, sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmbc.com\/video\/index.html?taf=kc1\">this link<\/a> to the team&#8217;s appearance on their local ABC affiliate this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Brian said in his note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Here is a clip form this morning. The actual coverage got cut short by some technical glitches and a traffic accident story that was more important.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>I hope everyone had fun.<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/KCSpacePiratesonABC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_KCSpacePiratesonABC.jpg\"  height=\"158\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 158px\" \/><\/a>We saw a quick demo of their Climber (the &#8220;Jolly Roger&#8221;), their winning entry in this year&#8217;s Light Racers Competition (I absolutely loved Quinn&#8217;s explanation of how it worked) and, of course, a demo of Brian&#8217;s RC controlled lawn mower.\u00a0 We were also introduced to many of the team members.<\/p>\n<p>The clip is a little over 4 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>(Click on the picture thumbnail for a slightly larger version)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Turner, captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates, sent me this link to the team&#8217;s appearance on their local ABC affiliate this morning. Brian said in his note: Here is a clip form this morning. The actual coverage got cut short by some technical glitches and a traffic accident story that was more important. [&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-870","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\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}