{"id":9733,"date":"2019-10-11T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2019-10-11T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T18:01:18","slug":"good-bye-alexei-leonov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9733","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye, Alexei Leonov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/11\/world\/alexei-leonov-first-spacewalk-death-scn-trnd\/index.html\">Alexei Leonov died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut. The first man to ever take a spacewalk (which, incidentally, nearly killed him, as did his atmospheric re-entry, which didn&#8217;t exactly go as planned either.)<\/p>\n<p>Leonov was also an accomplished artist. Many of his paintings featured space travel. Here is a beautiful picture, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacearttribute.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/cosmonauts-as-artists.html\">from a blog entry by Larry McGlynn<\/a>, showing Leonov with one of his paintings, in 2004 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacearttribute.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/cosmonauts-as-artists.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9734\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/leonov-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/leonov.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/leonov-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/leonov-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Leonov now joins that ever growing list of brave souls from the dawn of the space age who are no longer with us. Rest in peace, Major General Leonov.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9733' 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>I just saw the news: Alexei Leonov died. Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut. The first man to ever take a spacewalk (which, incidentally, nearly killed him, as did his atmospheric re-entry, which didn&#8217;t exactly go as planned either.) Leonov was also an accomplished artist. Many of his paintings featured space travel. Here is a beautiful <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9733' 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":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space","category-25-id","category-26-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\/9733","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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9735,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}