{"id":548,"date":"2006-09-26T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/26\/the-apple-does-not-fall\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T16:54:43","slug":"the-apple-does-not-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/26\/the-apple-does-not-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The apple does not fall&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the photo below captivated me when I came across it at Flickr, after following a link from somewhere I can&#8217;t remember right now. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spaceexplorer\/252459120\/\">snapshot from the space station<\/a> in orbit, with &#8220;space tourist&#8221; Anousheh Ansari looking upwards at an apple floating in the air above her. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spaceexplorer\/252459120\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/space%20shuttle.jpg?w=525\" border=\"0\" alt=\"space station\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The look on her face is one of pure joy (the fact that she is attractive probably helps with the captivating part, I will admit). Is that look worth the $20-million or so she reportedly paid to get up there? Someone will have to ask her I suppose. The shot was posted to Ms. Ansari&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceblog.xprize.org\/\">blog<\/a>, where she also talks about the camaraderie among the astronauts on the space station.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the photo below captivated me when I came across it at Flickr, after following a link from somewhere I can&#8217;t remember right now. It&#8217;s a snapshot from the space station in orbit, with &#8220;space tourist&#8221; Anousheh Ansari looking upwards at an apple floating in the air above her. The look on her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/09\/26\/the-apple-does-not-fall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The apple does not fall&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}