{"id":132186,"date":"2016-12-08T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/rip-john-glenn.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T08:42:03","slug":"rip-john-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/rip-john-glenn.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, John Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While his work as US Senator was tarnished by the Keating Five scandal, Glenn&#39;s career in politics was a reasonably good one. But he will be remembered more (and with reason) for his earlier work as a test pilot and then one of the original Mercury astronauts, and being the first American to orbit the planet, in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, sir, for your service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/12\/08\/john-glenn-dies\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/LTHxyZccOKCpepROQwuAgT8PlGusBUxhcKuykVAsWrk612Mf_uEbcDAbdiwyKhQBeM97wJOjReAVN5nlo3Q4iJcIrCKE65LOUJ6ZMFFMYbMzWOq2DJ-xLJJ6Q4CtpyA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/12\/08\/john-glenn-dies\/'>John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth and later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, has died at 95<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFormer astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died in Ohio. He was 95.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Yom9snL7noM'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While his work as US Senator was tarnished by the Keating Five scandal, Glenn&#39;s career in politics was a reasonably good one. But he will be remembered more (and with reason) for his earlier work as a test pilot and then one of the original Mercury astronauts, and being the first American to orbit the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/rip-john-glenn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, John Glenn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,75,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-media-performers","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/13\/but_it_could_ne.html","url_meta":{"origin":132186,"position":0},"title":"But it could never happen here","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Nov-01 7:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A new book claims that the Joint Chiefs of Staff seriously proposed a plan to the Kennedy Administration to use staged terror attacks on the US as an excuse to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20720,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/flute-in-spaaaaaaaaaace.html","url_meta":{"origin":132186,"position":1},"title":"Flute! 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