{"id":3874,"date":"2014-07-15T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2014-07-15T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:32:18","slug":"tampons-were-packed-with-their-strings-connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tampons were packed with their strings connecting them, like a strip of sausages, so they wouldn\u2019t float away. Engineers asked Ride, \u201cIs 100 the right number?\u201d She would be in space for a week. \u201cThat would not be the right number,\u201d she told them. At every turn, her difference was made clear to her. When it was announced Ride had been named to a space flight mission, her shuttle commander, Bob Crippen, who became a lifelong friend and colleague, introduced her as \u201cundoubtedly the prettiest member of the crew.\u201d At another press event, a reporter asked Ride how she would react to a problem on the shuttle: \u201cDo you weep?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/astronaut-sally-ride-and-burden-being-%E2%80%9C-first%E2%80%9D\">Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being \u201cThe First\u201d<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/yahighway.tumblr.com\/\">yahighway<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Men don\u2019t appreciate the amount of self-control women have to exercise in order not to spend their entire lives facepalming.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vulvanity.tumblr.com\/\">vulvanity<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampons were packed with their strings connecting them, like a strip of sausages, so they wouldn\u2019t float away. Engineers asked Ride, \u201cIs 100 the right number?\u201d She would be in space for a week. \u201cThat would not be the right number,\u201d she told them. At every turn, her difference was made clear to her. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=3874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}