{"id":2528,"date":"2009-10-15T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T20:42:32","slug":"on-carl-sagans-a-glorious-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"On Carl Sagan&#8217;s &#8220;A Glorious Dawn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For someone who watched <i>Cosmos<\/i> at a young age and had his life shaped by it, this video is <i>really<\/i> cool:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zSgiXGELjbc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zSgiXGELjbc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And if you want the song as an mp3, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorpulsemusic.com\/youtube.html\">you can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.&#8221; &#8220;The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.&#8221; For someone who watched Cosmos at a young age and had his life shaped by it, this video is really<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2528\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Carl Sagan&#8217;s &#8220;A Glorious Dawn&#8221;&#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":[183,716],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-carl-sagan","tag-cosmos","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}