{"id":494,"date":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:19:18","slug":"decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/decisions-decisions.php","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity poor Emma Morris, a 27-year-old publicist from Melbourne, Australia. Or not.  You see, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginblue.com.au\/AboutUs\/Media\/NewsandPressReleases\/P_009839.htm\">she&#8217;s a winner of a contest by Australian airline Virgin Blue<\/a> that awarded her 25 million points, enough to be redeemed for a flight on Virgin Galactic.  However, she can also use the points for two Alfa Romeo Spider sports cars (plus gas vouchers and cash), or a shopping spree, or a luxury vacation.  She was offered the flight when Sir Richard Branson called her to let her know she had won the contest. &#8220;Do you fancy going into space?&#8221; he asked.  Her response: &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s ever asked me that before. Um, quite possibly.&#8221;  (You can hear a recording of the call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.25millionpoints.com.au\/\">on the contest web site<\/a>, although be prepared for some celebratory shouting and screaming as well.)  Later: &#8220;I can&#8217;t quite, you know, get my head around it that&#8217;s even one of the prizes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The press release, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/story\/0,28318,25951943-5014090,00.html\">a NEWS.com.au article<\/a>, notes that her friends have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=137948993573&amp;ref=search&amp;sid=737894984.3807617977..1\">&#8220;Will Emma Go to Space?&#8221; Facebook group<\/a> to help her decide.  She has until September 8 to choose a prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity poor Emma Morris, a 27-year-old publicist from Melbourne, Australia. Or not. You see, she&#8217;s a winner of a contest by Australian airline Virgin Blue that awarded her 25 million points, enough to be redeemed for a flight on Virgin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/decisions-decisions.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}