{"id":145241,"date":"2015-07-17T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/17\/stonedkitty-did-you-kno-on-her-childhood-i\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:33:42","slug":"stonedkitty-did-you-kno-on-her-childhood-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/17\/stonedkitty-did-you-kno-on-her-childhood-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stonedkitty.tumblr.com\/post\/123830017913\" target=\"_blank\">stonedkitty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/didyouknowblog.com\/post\/123829609729\/on-her-childhood-i-counted-everything-i-counted\" target=\"_blank\">did-you-kno<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On her childhood:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed \u2026 anything that could be counted, I did.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/1e48bbe57700db5cc7c92183e1f3c9bd\/tumblr_inline_nra19a1R8X1sjh1ps_540.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>On her NASA calculations:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cEarly on, when they said they wanted the capsule to come down at a certain place, they were trying to compute when it should start. I said, \u2018Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I\u2019ll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.\u2019 That was my forte.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Katherine really stood out in her field because she was the only woman who asked questions. <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe women did what they were told to do,\u201d she explained. \u201cThey didn\u2019t ask questions or take the task any further. I asked questions; I wanted to know why.\u201c<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, when asked if she still counts things:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0\u201cOh, yes. And things have to be parallel. I see a picture right now that\u2019s not parallel, so I\u2019m going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e9ad550459f7549cb5ff3c051313231d\/tumblr_inline_nra1cvxRzF1sjh1ps_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/langley\/news\/researchernews\/rn_kjohnson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AND SHES BLACK<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stonedkitty: did-you-kno: On her childhood: \u201cI counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed \u2026 anything that could be counted, I did.\u201d On her NASA calculations: \u201cEarly on, when they said they wanted the capsule to come down at a certain &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/17\/stonedkitty-did-you-kno-on-her-childhood-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,2914,6323,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}