{"id":1167,"date":"2009-01-04T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2009-01-04T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T11:02:13","slug":"making-eye-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1167","title":{"rendered":"Making Eye Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Space is big. You just won&#8217;t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it&#8217;s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that&#8217;s just peanuts to space.<\/em>  D. Adams<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/12\/so_you_got_a_telescope_for_chr.php\">So you got a telescope for Christmas&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now the sky is a big place, and telescopes don&#8217;t often come with an astronomer to explain how to use them. I&#8217;m not an astronomer either, but I&#8217;ve been an amateur stargazer on and off for years and I might be able to give you some good advice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think one company did offer an astronomer along with the telescope, but it ended badly.  They require a lot of care and feeding and are nocturnal by nature, so they tend to keep you awake (<em>Ooh!  Come look at this!<\/em>) even when you don&#8217;t want to observe.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is big. You just won&#8217;t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it&#8217;s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that&#8217;s just peanuts to space. D. Adams So you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}