{"id":853,"date":"2006-09-20T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=853"},"modified":"2006-09-20T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T02:27:54","slug":"on-a-place-in-the-universe-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"On a Place in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing puts things into perspective like seeing an image of the Earth taken from deep space, with the planet just a disc of light.  No borders, no cities, just light, such as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmannedspaceflight.com\/index.php?act=Attach&#038;type=post&#038;id=7505\">this recent image from the Cassini space probe in orbit of Saturn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The things we worry about every day, they seem so much less important when you stop and realize how small we are in the grand scheme of the universe.  We&#8217;re merely dust motes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing puts things into perspective like seeing an image of the Earth taken from deep space, with the planet just a disc of light. No borders, no cities, just light, such as in this recent image from the Cassini space probe in orbit of Saturn. The things we worry about every day, they seem so<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=853\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Place in 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":[4111,4104,4118],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-atheism","tag-philosophy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}