{"id":4566,"date":"2013-09-21T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2013-09-21T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T13:47:19","slug":"the-british-interplanetary-society-is-80-and-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4566","title":{"rendered":"The British Interplanetary Society is 80 and going strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bis-space.com\/\" target=\"_d\">The British Interplanetary Society<\/a> (BIS) reaches four score years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2013\/sep\/20\/spacewatch-british-interplanetary-society-daedalus\" target=\"_d\">Spacewatch: The British Interplanetary Society at 80 &#8211; The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Interplanetary Society (BIS) reaches four score years: Spacewatch: The British Interplanetary Society at 80 &#8211; The Guardian &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[3,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-education","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1bE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1292","url_meta":{"origin":4566,"position":0},"title":"A brief history of the British Interplanetary Society","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Kelvin Long provides a historical review of the British Interplanetary Society, one of the oldest space advocacy organizations: The British Interplanetary Society at 80 Years - Centauri Dreams. 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