{"id":110,"date":"2004-10-04T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2004-10-04T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T09:40:09","slug":"success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/04\/success\/","title":{"rendered":"Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceShipOne has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/xprize2_success_041004.html\">won the X-Prize<\/a> following a successful &#8212; and apparently flawless &#8212; second flight this morning. I don&#8217;t have much else to say on this subject that I haven&#8217;t said already. Oddly enough, this news is something of a let-down for me because it all happened so according-to-plan. Not that I wanted to see the vehicle explode or anything, but it just seemed to be so&#8230; easy. Even a little ho-hum, as if this privately funded civilian spacecraft thing has already become old hat. But then that&#8217;s the way we want it to be, isn&#8217;t it? Nice and easy, nothing remarkable. Easy enough for an ordinary person to book a flight to the orbiting Hilton for the weekend. The future is coming, my friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceShipOne has won the X-Prize following a successful &#8212; and apparently flawless &#8212; second flight this morning. I don&#8217;t have much else to say on this subject that I haven&#8217;t said already. Oddly enough, this news is something of a let-down for me because it all happened so according-to-plan. Not that I wanted to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}