{"id":294,"date":"2003-10-07T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=294"},"modified":"2003-10-07T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T18:26:23","slug":"106554758352850764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/106554758352850764\/","title":{"rendered":"106554758352850764"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"moonmars.jpg\"><br \/>\nMoon and Mars together<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/spaceweather\/swpod2003\/07oct03\/gould.jpg\">Photo by Allan Gould<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a photo of Mars out beyond the limb of the Moon.  It took me years of looking into the sky to convince my mind that when I look up there I am not seeing a two dimensional surface.  Sometimes it helps to really focus on the moon as a sphere, and then it becomes clear, once one astronomical body has depth, that everything else lies in a field that extends away from us.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are somehow conditioned to see the sky as a roof, a sensation that cathedral architects have played with for centuries.  It&#8217;s a strangely liberating feeling when you realize that the objects in the sky are not &#8220;up there&#8221; but rather &#8220;out there.&#8221;  This photo is a nice reminder of that perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon and Mars together Photo by Allan Gould This is a photo of Mars out beyond the limb of the Moon. It took me years of looking into the sky to convince my mind that when I look up there I am not seeing a two dimensional surface. Sometimes it helps to really focus on the moon as a sphere, and then it becomes clear, once one astronomical body has depth, that everything else lies in a field that extends away from us. I think we are somehow conditioned to see the sky as a roof, a sensation that cathedral &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-4K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}