{"id":297,"date":"2001-05-21T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2001-05-21T16:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=297"},"modified":"2001-05-21T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2001-05-21T16:50:15","slug":"kent-cullers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Kent Cullers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the blind scientist in the movie <i>Contact<\/i>? Well, the character was modeled after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/may2001\/nf20010516_176.htm\">Kent Cullers<\/a>, a blind physicist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti-inst.edu\/\">SETI  Institute<\/a>. He says he was orginally going to play himself in the movie, but &#8220;as the part expanded, it required the skills of a real actor&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the blind scientist in the movie Contact? Well, the character was modeled after Kent Cullers, a blind physicist at the SETI Institute. He says he was orginally going to play himself in the movie, but &#8220;as the part expanded, it required the skills of a real actor&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}