{"id":3976,"date":"2012-10-15T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:30:44","slug":"faster-than-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3976","title":{"rendered":"Faster than sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Felix Baumgartner was getting ready to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1271547--felix-baumgartner-plunges-to-earth-safely-it-was-harder-than-i-expected\">jump out of his capsule<\/a> at an altitude of 39 km to begin his supersonic skydive, something else supersonic was taking place elsewhere: The man who first broke the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/chuck-yeager-breaks-sound-barrier-article-1.1183654\">flew faster than sound again<\/a> in the back seat of an F-15 Eagle. Way to go, General Yeager! I hope I will be at least half as healthy as you are when I turn 89.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/chuck-yeager-breaks-sound-barrier-article-1.1183654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3977\" title=\"yeager16n-1-web\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/yeager16n-1-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/yeager16n-1-web.jpg 635w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/yeager16n-1-web-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3976' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Felix Baumgartner was getting ready to jump out of his capsule at an altitude of 39 km to begin his supersonic skydive, something else supersonic was taking place elsewhere: The man who first broke the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager, flew faster than sound again in the back seat of an F-15 Eagle. Way to <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3976' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-history","category-37-id","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}