{"id":1368,"date":"2015-02-17T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:54:23","slug":"happy-birthday-galileo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/2015\/02\/17\/happy-birthday-galileo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Galileo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, Galileo would have been 451 years old today. To celebrate his birthday we thought it would be great to share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/11\/15\/proving_galileo_brian_cox_gets_the_drop_on_physics.html\">this<\/a>\u00a0article proving his theory true; a heavy item and a light item would reach the ground at the same time in a vacuum. In the video below, they travel to NASA&#8217;s space power facility in Cleveland, Ohio to the worlds largest vacuum chamber to prove his point.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E43-CfukEgs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, Galileo would have been 451 years old today. To celebrate his birthday we thought it would be great to share this\u00a0article proving his theory true; a heavy item and a light item would reach the ground at the same time in a vacuum. In the video below, they travel to NASA&#8217;s space power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[872,54],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-videos","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QfXa-m4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/smile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}