{"id":46481,"date":"2012-06-06T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/cbs-evening-news-with-scott-pelley-transit-of-venus-used-as-astronomical-yardstick-video.php"},"modified":"2012-06-06T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:15:58","slug":"cbs-evening-news-with-scott-pelley-transit-of-venus-used-as-astronomical-yardstick-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cbs-evening-news-with-scott-pelley-transit-of-venus-used-as-astronomical-yardstick-video.php","title":{"rendered":"CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley &#8211; Transit of Venus used as astronomical yardstick &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 04-06-2012 18:59 In the 18th century, astronomers believed that they could use the transit of Venus to answer one of the most pressing questions of the age: What is the size of the solar system? Elaine Quijano reports on the perilous quest hundreds of scientists took across the globe to record this rare occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y8Kw7-zXZ1Q\" title=\"CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley - Transit of Venus used as astronomical yardstick - Video\">CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley - Transit of Venus used as astronomical yardstick - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 04-06-2012 18:59 In the 18th century, astronomers believed that they could use the transit of Venus to answer one of the most pressing questions of the age: What is the size of the solar system? Elaine Quijano reports on the perilous quest hundreds of scientists took across the globe to record this rare occurrence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cbs-evening-news-with-scott-pelley-transit-of-venus-used-as-astronomical-yardstick-video.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-46481","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\/46481"}],"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=46481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}