{"id":3085,"date":"2008-05-23T20:09:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2008-05-23T20:09:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:09:46","slug":"2793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/2793\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today, a person standing on the observation deck of the Empire State Building on a cloudless night would be unable to discern much more than the moon, the brighter planets, and a handful of very bright stars&#8211;less than one per cent of what Galileo would have been able to see without a telescope.&#8221; &#8211; <a title=\"Our Far-flung Correspondents: The Dark Side: Reporting &#038; Essays: The New Yorker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/08\/20\/070820fa_fact_owen?currentPage=all\">The Dark Side: The New Yorker<\/a>. I&#8217;m really interested in how this affects our thoughts about the universe beyond us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/08\/05\/enlightened\">as Kottke notes<\/a>, and how we might reclaim our sense of wonder about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today, a person standing on the observation deck of the Empire State Building on a cloudless night would be unable to discern much more than the moon, the brighter planets, and a handful of very bright stars&#8211;less than one per cent of what Galileo would have been able to see without a telescope.&#8221; &#8211; The&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/2793\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-2793","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}