{"id":1255,"date":"2007-08-03T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2007-08-03T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T12:03:33","slug":"on-the-wonders-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"On the Wonders of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this website picking it up off the various feed options may be unaware of a little feature of the blog &mdash; there&#8217;s a sidebar widget that shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a nifty website where, in their words, &#8220;a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070803.html\">Today&#8217;s image is of the Helix Nebula<\/a>.  Seven hundred light-years away, it&#8217;s like a giant angry eye staring back at us from deep space.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I instantly think of <i>The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye<\/i> when I look at that picture.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing science fiction because I wanted to visit places like <i>that<\/i>.  Ah, the sensawunder.  Makes me feel like a little kid again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this website picking it up off the various feed options may be unaware of a little feature of the blog &mdash; there&#8217;s a sidebar widget that shows the Astronomy Picture of the Day. It&#8217;s a nifty website where, in their words, &#8220;a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1255\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Wonders of the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4111,4102],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}