{"id":4031,"date":"2012-05-11T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2012-05-09T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T00:40:36","slug":"astronomy-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4031","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You remember haiku?  Three lines, the first line with five syllables, a second line with seven syllables, and a last line with five syllables.  It may be poetry, but this is easy poetry to write, a short verse with an elegant cadence.<\/p>\n<p>For an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astroday.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">AstroDay<\/a> activity, Keck held an astronomy haiku project.  We have a stack of entries we are just now getting a chance to read.  Winners are not yet decided, but I have found a few that are wonderful, and worth giving some recognition to.<\/p>\n<p>I should be clear, these are my favorites!  Not necessarily the contest winners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3521\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3521\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3521\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ngc1976-20111125-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Orion Nebula\" title=\"Orion Nebula\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3521\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NGC1976 or M42, the Great Orion Nebula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Telescopes are great<br \/>\nThey make you see very far<br \/>\nI love telescopes<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-Madison Kobayashi (age 9)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Stars shining brightly<br \/>\nI look to them for comfort<br \/>\nIn them I find you<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-Lacey Siweila<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lacey is over 18 and not eligible for a prize in the contest.  She knew this and enters a poem anyway.  You have to love that!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Moon is so bright<br \/>\nThe stars help light up the night<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s lay out tonight<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Micah Timbresa (age 7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All poems reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember haiku? Three lines, the first line with five syllables, a second line with seven syllables, and a last line with five syllables. It may be poetry, but this is easy poetry to write, a short verse with an elegant cadence. For an AstroDay activity, Keck held an astronomy haiku project. We have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Astronomy Haiku&#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":[41,20],"tags":[424,59,427,50,428],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031"}],"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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}