{"id":102701,"date":"2020-02-23T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/science-channel-star-mad-mike-hughes-dies-while-attempting-to-launch-a-homemade-rocket"},"modified":"2020-02-23T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T12:03:19","slug":"science-channel-star-mad-mike-hughes-dies-while-attempting-to-launch-a-homemade-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/science-channel-star-mad-mike-hughes-dies-while-attempting-to-launch-a-homemade-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Science Channel star \u2018Mad Mike\u2019 Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-channel-star-mad-mike-hughes-dies-while-attempting-to-launch-a-homemade-rocket.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science Channel star \u201cMad Mike\u201d Hughes died during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes\u2019 family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey,\u201d the Science Channel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was scheduled to launch his homemade rocket for a new Science Channel series called \u201cHomemade Astronauts,\u201d according to the Discovery Channel website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Channel star \u201cMad Mike\u201d Hughes died during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket Saturday. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes\u2019 family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey,\u201d the Science Channel said in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}