{"id":132,"date":"2003-07-09T07:08:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=132"},"modified":"2003-07-09T07:08:52","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:08:52","slug":"will-china-get-to-mars-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/07\/09\/will-china-get-to-mars-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Will China Get to Mars First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it sort of looks like they might.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they haven&#8217;t gotten to the moon, yet, but according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/07\/03\/0513223&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=134&#038;tid=160\">this article on Slashdot<\/a>, they&#8217;re already making plans.  And, pretty aggresive plans, too.  I can&#8217;t help but wonder why they&#8217;re pushing so hard to get into space all of a sudden.  Do they think it will suddenly catch them up to us technologically?  Do they see us as weak and vulnerable, so they&#8217;re trying to take advantage?  And, how are they getting all this development done?  Is someone passing them secrets?  Again?!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a bad thing.  After all, it might just spur us on to greater heights in that neglected arena.  Maybe they&#8217;ll come up with some interesting, new astronaut meals!  The Chinese have always been food innovators.  It might just be the best thing to happen to <i>our<\/i> space program!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it sort of looks like they might. Of course, they haven&#8217;t gotten to the moon, yet, but according to this article on Slashdot, they&#8217;re already making plans. And, pretty aggresive plans, too. I can&#8217;t help but wonder why they&#8217;re pushing so hard to get into space all of a sudden. Do they think it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","tag-food-innovators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}