{"id":45866,"date":"2019-03-25T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45866"},"modified":"2019-03-23T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T19:34:14","slug":"writing-prompt-the-glamorous-life-of-an-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/writing-prompt-the-glamorous-life-of-an-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: The Glamorous Life of an Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has published research revealing that the herpes virus reactivated during spaceflight in more than half the crew\u00a0aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. While only a few crew members showed symptoms, the rate of virus reactivation increased the longer the mission lasted, which suggests astronauts on longer flights &#8211; such as to Mars and beyond &#8211; could face serious health risks.<\/p>\n<p>What other nastiness lies dormant in our blood or DNA, merely waiting for a space flight to arise? What happens next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-dormant-viruses-spaceflight.html\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/virus-microscope-infection-illness-1812092\/\">Photo courtesy Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has published research revealing that the herpes virus reactivated during spaceflight in more than half the crew\u00a0aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. While only a few crew members showed symptoms, the rate of virus reactivation increased the longer the mission lasted, which suggests astronauts on longer flights &#8211; such as to Mars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[553,513],"class_list":["post-45866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-science","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46070,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45866\/revisions\/46070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}