{"id":1402,"date":"2006-05-30T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/30\/look-ma-no-gravity\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T06:05:00","slug":"look-ma-no-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/30\/look-ma-no-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Ma, No Gravity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video from my Zero-G flight on May 6th:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9mrQ883FVmM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/9mrQ883FVmM\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/9mrQ883FVmM<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the one with the water bottle and the green octopus, and yes, I do find out, on the second-to-last parabola, why NASA calls their plane &#8220;the Vomit Comet.&#8221;  Hey, I paided mah money, an&#8217; I wants th&#8217; full experience.<\/p>\n<p>Motion sickness aside, it was amazing.  Being truly weightless feels like nothing else in the world&#8211; as it should, I suppose.  And I can&#8217;t wait until I can be in zero-gee for more than thirty seconds at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video from my Zero-G flight on May 6th: http:\/\/youtu.be\/9mrQ883FVmM I&#8217;m the one with the water bottle and the green octopus, and yes, I do find out, on the second-to-last parabola, why NASA calls their plane &#8220;the Vomit Comet.&#8221; Hey, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[15,84,64,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievementunlocked","category-fun","category-geeky","category-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}