{"id":1188,"date":"2011-04-02T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-04-02T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T19:28:37","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-yuri-gagarins-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/04\/02\/50th-anniversary-of-yuri-gagarins-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s Flight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12th, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut (or astronaut if you grew up in the West) to orbit the Earth. This event will be celebrated all over the world and I will make a few posts about it as well. However, for now, I would like to post a short animation related to the event, which in my view, is worth watching. I find it very touching. Do not worry if you do not speak Russian &#8211; you will get it! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-1188-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gM7YRlZiV9M\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/gM7YRlZiV9M\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12th, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut (or astronaut if you grew up in the West) to orbit the Earth. This event will be celebrated all over the world and I will make a few posts about&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/04\/02\/50th-anniversary-of-yuri-gagarins-flight\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s Flight&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,6989,4899,31,236253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-outreach","category-personal","category-science-in-everyday-life","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}