{"id":136,"date":"2010-04-09T00:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T00:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/04\/09\/faster_than_a_rocket\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:06:37","slug":"faster_than_a_rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/04\/09\/faster_than_a_rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster than a Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to be able to announce that, having <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/scurry\/2010\/01\/26\/still-running\"> taken up jogging<\/a> at the turn of the year, I can now run faster than a rocket. Well, strictly speaking, I can now run faster that <em>the<\/em> Rocket&#8211;or rather a very fine replica thereof&#8211;which I overtook yesterday lunchtime in Kensington Gardens. This was the view as I whizzed past:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Rocket by sc63, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sc63\/4504135550\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2785\/4504135550_121444a867.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Stephen passes Stephenson<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to take a ride in the train has until the 18th April. Or you can touch the <em>real thing<\/em> at the Science Museum down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to be able to announce that, having taken up jogging at the turn of the year, I can now run faster than a rocket. Well, strictly speaking, I can now run faster that the Rocket&#8211;or rather a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/04\/09\/faster_than_a_rocket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}