{"id":9312,"date":"2018-08-31T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T20:26:16","slug":"homers-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/31\/homers-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Homer&#8217;s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/daily-brief\/woman-may-have-lost-nasa-internship-after-insulting-famed-engineer-homer-hickam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Real Clear Life<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Woman May Have Lost NASA Internship After Insulting Famed Engineer Homer Hickam<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"entry-subtitle\">Hickam told the young girl to watch her language on Twitter.<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9313\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/homer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/homer.jpg 504w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/homer-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman may have lost her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/daily-brief\/nasa-produces-rare-exotic-matter-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a> internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter, who is none other than the famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam.<\/p>\n<p>A user identified as Naomi H. (@NaomiH_official) announced her internship with a tweet that said, \u201c\u201dEveryone shut the f\u2014 up. I got accepted for a NASA internship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another user, who ended up being Hickam \u2014 the former NASA engineer and inspiration of the 1999 film <em>October Sky<\/em>, based on his memoir \u2014 responded, \u201cLanguage.\u201d Naomi H. tweeted back with a sexually vulgar tweet, concluding it with \u201cI\u2019m working at NASA.\u201d Hickam responded, \u201cAnd I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearlife.com\/daily-brief\/woman-may-have-lost-nasa-internship-after-insulting-famed-engineer-homer-hickam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at RCL<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Real Clear Life Woman May Have Lost NASA Internship After Insulting Famed Engineer Homer Hickam Hickam told the young girl to watch her language on Twitter. A woman may have lost her NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter, who is none other than the famed former NASA engineer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}