{"id":9400,"date":"2005-12-25T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-earthlings\/"},"modified":"2005-12-25T13:17:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T18:17:50","slug":"merry-christmas-earthlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-earthlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Earthlings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap051224.html\">famous photograph<\/a> was taken on Christmas Eve, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders.  It&#8217;s usually rotated by 90 degrees, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/science\/moon\/earthrise.htm\">apparently<\/a> this view is what Anders actually saw.  (Don&#8217;t ask me how they know that.)<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/earthrise.jpg' alt='Earthrise' \/><br \/>\nPeace on this tiny little ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This famous photograph was taken on Christmas Eve, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. It&#8217;s usually rotated by 90 degrees, but apparently this view is what Anders actually saw. (Don&#8217;t ask me how they know that.) Peace on this tiny little ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}