{"id":127856,"date":"2021-09-19T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-first-black-man-in-space-how-america-forgot-a-historic-orbital-flight"},"modified":"2021-09-19T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:22:17","slug":"the-first-black-man-in-space-how-america-forgot-a-historic-orbital-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-first-black-man-in-space-how-america-forgot-a-historic-orbital-flight","title":{"rendered":"The first Black man in space: How America forgot a historic orbital flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-black-man-in-space-how-america-forgot-a-historic-orbital-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tamayo Mendez is Cuba\u2019s first and only cosmonaut.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Arnaldo Tamayo M\u00e9ndez grew up a poor orphan, but in September 1980 he wound up flying to space as Cuba\u2019s first and only Cosmonaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamayo Mendez is Cuba\u2019s first and only cosmonaut. Arnaldo Tamayo M\u00e9ndez grew up a poor orphan, but in September 1980 he wound up flying to space as Cuba\u2019s first and only Cosmonaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127856","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}