{"id":2385,"date":"2015-05-05T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2015-05-05T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:42:14","slug":"i-met-rakesh-sharma-the-first-indian-to-go-into-space-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/i-met-rakesh-sharma-the-first-indian-to-go-into-space-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"I met Rakesh Sharma &#8211; the first Indian to go into space this weekend!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Wellington this weekend to spend some time with Gaurang, Kangan &#038; Sid and meet Gaurang&#8217;s parents. The visit was great but the highlight for me was getting to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rakesh_Sharma\">Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma (Retd.)<\/a>, the first Indian to go to space. At first I didn&#8217;t realize who we were going to meet because I was still a bit groggy from lack of sleep but then the lights came on and I realized just who I was going to meet. Trust me I was wide awake shortly thereafter. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We met him twice and I even managed to get a photo with him :). I am not going to go into how\/why we met him twice and how it almost became thrice but it was worth it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. I need to crash now, will write more later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Wellington this weekend to spend some time with Gaurang, Kangan &#038; Sid and meet Gaurang&#8217;s parents. The visit was great but the highlight for me was getting to meet Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), the first Indian to go to space. At first I didn&#8217;t realize who we were going to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}