{"id":82086,"date":"2018-08-26T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/katherine-johnson-who-hand-crunched-the-numbers-for-americas-first-manned-space-flight-is-100-today"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T23:02:55","slug":"katherine-johnson-who-hand-crunched-the-numbers-for-americas-first-manned-space-flight-is-100-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/katherine-johnson-who-hand-crunched-the-numbers-for-americas-first-manned-space-flight-is-100-today","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson, who hand-crunched the numbers for America\u2019s first manned space flight, is 100 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RK8xHq6dfAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Black women, especially, played a crucial role in the pool, providing mathematical data for NASA\u2019s first successful space missions, including Alan Shepherd\u2019s 1961 mission and John Glenn\u2019s pioneering orbital spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/26\/us\/katherine-johnson-hidden-figure-birthday-trnd\/\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/26\/us\/katherine-johnson-hidden-figure-birthday-trnd\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black women, especially, played a crucial role in the pool, providing mathematical data for NASA\u2019s first successful space missions, including Alan Shepherd\u2019s 1961 mission and John Glenn\u2019s pioneering orbital spaceflight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086","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=82086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}