{"id":3799,"date":"2020-02-24T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2020-03-03T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:25:37","slug":"rip-katherine-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/rip-katherine-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Katherine Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ms. Johnson, best known to the masses as a NASA mathematician in the movie Hidden Figures, passed away today.  She was 101 years old.  That&#8217;s a good run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-nbc-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/video\/the-untold-story-of-nasa-s-african-american-female-scientists-829485123654\">The Amazing Untold Story of NASA&#8217;s Brilliant African-American Female Scientists<\/a><\/h4><p>There have been countless stories told about the men of America&#8217;s space program, but the new film &#8220;Hidden Figures&#8221; profiles the surprising women who helped send NASA to space.<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image.png 628w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your contribution to science and to gender equality, Ms. Johnson.  Rest in peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Johnson, best known to the masses as a NASA mathematician in the movie Hidden Figures, passed away today. She was 101 years old. That&#8217;s a good run. Thank you for your contribution to science and to gender equality, Ms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/rip-katherine-johnson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,430,75,98,56,18],"tags":[266,519,203],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-humans","category-people","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-death","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}