{"id":234,"date":"2016-12-21T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:56:49","slug":"december-2016-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/december-2016-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2016 Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold and snowy night, but we had a great meeting. Ted Decker, a columnist with the Columbus Dispatch, visited and interviewed us about John Glenn&#8217;s influence on our lives and passions. We would have spent a lot of time discussing him anyway &#8211; he was a true American hero that we all admired. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/12\/15\/theodore-decker-like-glenn-rocket-enthusiasts-drawn-to-flight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The article that Ted wrote<\/a> was very well-written; it captured our discussion wonderfully, woven with a great biography of the astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>We also talked about various construction and finishing techniques, including efforts to prevent zippering, and use of Kevlar shock cords. We discussed future launches, but decided against a December launch, based on an unpleasant weather forecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cold and snowy night, but we had a great meeting. Ted Decker, a columnist with the Columbus Dispatch, visited and interviewed us about John Glenn&#8217;s influence on our lives and passions. We would have spent a lot of time discussing him anyway &#8211; he was a true \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/december-2016-meeting\/\">Continue&#8230; <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralohiorocketry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}