{"id":5198,"date":"2010-07-08T19:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:33:27","slug":"on-carl-sagans-insight-on-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"On Carl Sagan&#8217;s Insight on the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5175\">yesterday&#8217;s post on atheism, philosophy, and man&#8217;s place in the universe<\/a>, Carl Sagan weighs in with his own views:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pxlPVSAnWOo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pxlPVSAnWOo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Sagan was inspirational to me when I was young.  He remains, nearly fifteen years after his death, an inspiration.  His wisdom and insight are missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on yesterday&#8217;s post on atheism, philosophy, and man&#8217;s place in the universe, Carl Sagan weighs in with his own views: Sagan was inspirational to me when I was young. He remains, nearly fifteen years after his death, an inspiration. His wisdom and insight are missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4104,183],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-carl-sagan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}