{"id":477,"date":"2013-02-07T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2013-02-07T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:15:17","slug":"fund-me-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fund me, maybe?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding money for research is not easy for your average scientist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicray.tv\/fund-me-maybe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fund me, maybe? &#8211; The Cosmic Ray Show <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTvajOQ_xak?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#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>Finding money for research is not easy for your average scientist: Fund me, maybe? &#8211; The Cosmic Ray Show<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-7H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6818,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6818","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Uwingu&#8217;s &#8220;Name a Mars Crater&#8221; &#8211; A view at Sky &#038; Telescope","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sky and Telescope magazine backs Uwingu's Mars Crater naming project:\u00a0Name a Mars Crater with Uwingu - SkyandTelescope.com. 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