{"id":4827,"date":"2013-09-11T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2013-09-11T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:12:26","slug":"pink-headed-for-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2013\/09\/pink-headed-for-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink headed for space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bob Geldof <\/strong>will become the first Irishman in space when he takes a ride on a commercial flight beyond the earth&#8217;s atmosphere in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Geldof, the Boomtown Rats frontman who played Pink in 1982&#8217;s &#8220;Pink Floyd The Wall,&#8221; was offered the trip when the Rats agreed to play a concert next month at a charity event at the Natural History Museum, London.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the flight will be auctioned at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent quotes Geldof as saying: &#8220;Pretty mind-blowing &#8230; The First Rock Astronaut \u2014 Space Rat! Elvis may have left the building but Bob Geldof will have left the planet! Wild!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Geldof will become the first Irishman in space when he takes a ride on a commercial flight beyond the earth&#8217;s atmosphere in 2015. Geldof, the Boomtown Rats frontman who played Pink in 1982&#8217;s &#8220;Pink Floyd The Wall,&#8221; was offered the trip when the Rats agreed to play a concert next month at a charity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-geldof","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}