{"id":18363,"date":"2016-02-16T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2016-02-16T20:35:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:35:36","slug":"stargazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18363","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XKCD has been on a roll lately.  OK, when is Randall not on a roll? Perhaps it is that several of the latest directly address astronomy, with this last one hitting closer to home than usual.  How often do I stand in front of a crowd talking about the stars?  Plus, I am not really an astronomer&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18365\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=18365\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18365\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stargazing-600x193.png\" alt=\"Some of you may be thinking, &#039;But wait, isn&#039;t the brightest star in our sky the Sun?&#039; I think that&#039;s a great question and you should totally ask it. On the infinite tree of possible conversations spread out before us, I think that&#039;s definitely the most promising branch.\" width=\"600\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stargazing-600x193.png 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/stargazing.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">XKCD comic &#8220;Stargazing&#8221; by Randall Munroe, creative commons license<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XKCD has been on a roll lately. OK, when is Randall not on a roll? Perhaps it is that several of the latest directly address astronomy, with this last one hitting closer to home than usual. How often do I stand in front of a crowd talking about the stars? Plus, I am not really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stargazing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[842,189],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18368,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions\/18368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}