{"id":9604,"date":"2015-01-14T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:51:21","slug":"anonymous-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/01\/14\/anonymous-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2818,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/14\\\/5200-days-in-space&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250326081030\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/14\\\/5200-days-in-space&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 18:15:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 05:54:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:11:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:11:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2819,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theatlantic.com\\\/features\\\/archive\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/5200-days-in-space\\\/383510&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150815040920\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.theatlantic.com\\\/features\\\/archive\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/5200-days-in-space\\\/383510\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 18:15:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 05:54:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet read the whole thing, but I&#8217;ll (shamelessly) snag the same pullout that <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/01\/14\/5200-days-in-space\" title=\"Daring Fireball: 5,200 Days in Space\">John Gruber did<\/a> when he linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2014\/12\/5200-days-in-space\/383510\/\" title=\"The Atlantic: 5,200 Days in Space\">this piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It&#8217;s a little strange when you think about it: Just about every American ninth-grader has never lived a moment without astronauts soaring overhead, living in space. But chances are, most ninth-graders don&#8217;t know the name of a single active astronaut&#8212;many don&#8217;t even know that Americans are up there. We&#8217;ve got a permanent space colony, inaugurated a year before the setting of the iconic movie\u00a0<em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. It&#8217;s a stunning achievement, and it&#8217;s completely ignored.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a stunning achievement, and it\u2019s completely ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tech","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}