{"id":2108,"date":"2011-05-31T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2011-05-31T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:45:24","slug":"distant-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Distant worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither I nor anyone else alive today would likely see the end of such a mission, but&#8230; the possibility that I might live long enough to see just the launch of humanity&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2011\/05\/planethunting_pioneer_calls_fo.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20110531\">first interstellar space mission<\/a> is simply awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s highly unlikely that it will happen. Mediocrity and politics will see to it that it won&#8217;t. But then&#8230; Apollo happened, didn&#8217;t it? Sometimes, miracles do occur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2108' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither I nor anyone else alive today would likely see the end of such a mission, but&#8230; the possibility that I might live long enough to see just the launch of humanity&#8217;s first interstellar space mission is simply awe-inspiring. Of course it&#8217;s highly unlikely that it will happen. Mediocrity and politics will see to it <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2108' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-space","category-5-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}