{"id":647,"date":"2009-08-07T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:42:10","slug":"647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m struck again by the irony that spaceflight \u2013 conceived in the cauldron of nationalistic rivalries and hatreds \u2013 brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply ingrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sagan\">Carl Sagan<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pale_Blue_Dot_(book)\">Pale Blue Dot<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019m struck again by the irony that spaceflight \u2013 conceived in the cauldron of nationalistic rivalries and hatreds \u2013 brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}