{"id":23419,"date":"2020-03-31T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astronaut-christina-koch-is-reading-childrens-books-on-instagram-and-kids-are-loving-it\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:07:02","slug":"astronaut-christina-koch-is-reading-childrens-books-on-instagram-and-kids-are-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astronaut-christina-koch-is-reading-childrens-books-on-instagram-and-kids-are-loving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Christina Koch is reading children\u2019s books on Instagram, and kids are loving it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"957\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/03\/30\/astronaut-christina-koch-is-reading-childrens-books-on-instagram-live-and-kids-are-loving-it\/christina-koch-iss\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"3900,1950\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Christina Koch ISS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024\"><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronaut Christina Koch recently returned to Earth after breaking the record for the longest single continuous stay in space of any woman, and that\u2019s not her only amazing achievement this year.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-948\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Koch, who also completed the first all-female space walk with Astronaut Jessica Meir, has recently turned to Instagram Live to read children\u2019s books to kids while school is out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow @astro_christina on Instagram and tune in at 4 p.m. EDT from Monday to Friday to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I tuned in so my seven-year-old daughter could watch and listen. My daughter shouted at the end of the broadcast that she can\u2019t wait to be a \u201cspace ranger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-948',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May we all find ways to be more like Christina. \ud83e\udde1<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich\">\n<iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=apollozac&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=e30%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1242490845586227201&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceexplored.com%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fastronaut-christina-koch-is-reading-childrens-books-on-instagram-live-and-kids-are-loving-it%2F&amp;sessionId=70c6490bf30a44bdd06ea1d59817163bd693712f&amp;siteScreenName=space_explored&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=500px\" data-tweet-id=\"1242490845586227201\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1783316905912989807=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rare lunch time run with Sadie! Thriving in an unexpected situation is all about focusing more on the unique things you get to do that you normally can\u2019t and less on what you might miss. We got this. #Earthstrong pic.twitter.com\/OdJbsMprcj<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) March 24, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut Christina Koch recently returned to Earth after breaking the record for the longest single continuous stay in space of any woman, and that\u2019s not her only amazing achievement this year. Koch, who also completed the first all-female space walk with Astronaut Jessica Meir, has recently turned to Instagram Live to read children\u2019s books to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}