{"id":14910,"date":"2010-04-15T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/three-birthdays-to-note-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:11:12","slug":"three-birthdays-to-note-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/three-birthdays-to-note-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Three birthdays to note | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Noisy Astronomer&rsquo;s blog every day &mdash; she&rsquo;s a grad student at the University of Virginia, and of course known the world around as Nicole Hasenpfeffer.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/noisyastronomer.com\/2010\/04\/12\/uvas-mccormick-observatory-celebrates-quasquicentennial\/\">Reading her blog today<\/a> I found out it&rsquo;s the birthday of the McCormick Observatory! This venerable observatory houses a 26 inch &rsquo;scope that I used many times in my career at UVa, and I have many fond memories of it (and some not-so-fond, usually involving long cold nights at the eyepiece). <\/p><p>She also mentions that it&rsquo;s Thomas Jefferson&rsquo;s birthday too. I think I&rsquo;ll celebrate by reading <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/declaration\/document\/index.htm\">the Declaration of Independence<\/a>. That&rsquo;s seriously one of the finest examples of writing in the English language.<\/p><p>And oh, the third one? My brother, of course. Happy birthday Merril!<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ky9VjSzvLYNmGywbiwZPJO1hmmQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7be44_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ky9VjSzvLYNmGywbiwZPJO1hmmQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7be44_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d6906_BeavD91IiXc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d6906_iBBtegTZNvY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Noisy Astronomer&rsquo;s blog every day &mdash; she&rsquo;s a grad student at the University of Virginia, and of course known the world around as Nicole Hasenpfeffer.Reading her blog today I found out it&rsquo;s the birthday of the McCormick Observatory! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/three-birthdays-to-note-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}