{"id":5284,"date":"2010-04-16T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2010-04-16T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T08:00:19","slug":"the-plutonic-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5284","title":{"rendered":"The Plutonic Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/pluto\/mail-nf.html\">Hate Mail from Third-Graders<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy being a public enemy,&#8221; writes Neil deGrasse Tyson in his book <em>The Pluto Files<\/em>. When Neil&#8217;s museum grouped Pluto not among the planets but rather with icy comets in an obscure region called the Kuiper Belt, he heard from thousands of outraged Pluto defenders. It&#8217;s tough being called a heartless Pluto-hater, particularly by a dismayed eight-year-old. Below, peruse a few of the letters elementary schoolkids sent Neil, and see how their tone shifted over the years, as the public slowly came to accept Pluto&#8217;s fall from planethood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate Mail from Third-Graders &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy being a public enemy,&#8221; writes Neil deGrasse Tyson in his book The Pluto Files. When Neil&#8217;s museum grouped Pluto not among the planets but rather with icy comets in an obscure region called &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5284\">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":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","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=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}