{"id":102876,"date":"2020-02-26T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/katherine-johnson-famed-nasa-mathematician-and-inspiration-for-the-film-hidden-figures-is-dead-at-101"},"modified":"2020-02-26T04:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T12:20:52","slug":"katherine-johnson-famed-nasa-mathematician-and-inspiration-for-the-film-hidden-figures-is-dead-at-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/katherine-johnson-famed-nasa-mathematician-and-inspiration-for-the-film-hidden-figures-is-dead-at-101","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and inspiration for the film \u2018Hidden Figures,\u2019 is dead at 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/katherine-johnson-famed-nasa-mathematician-and-inspiration-for-the-film-hidden-figures-is-dead-at-1012.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA announced Johnson\u2019s death on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was part of NASA\u2019s \u201cComputer Pool,\u201d a group of mathematicians whose data powered NASA\u2019s first successful space missions. The group\u2019s success largely hinged on the accomplishments of its black women members.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power NASA\u2019s space travel in the early 1960s when the agency was still segregated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA announced Johnson\u2019s death on Monday. Johnson was part of NASA\u2019s \u201cComputer Pool,\u201d a group of mathematicians whose data powered NASA\u2019s first successful space missions. The group\u2019s success largely hinged on the accomplishments of its black women members. Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power NASA\u2019s space travel in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102876","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}