{"id":423,"date":"2005-12-09T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T10:47:24","slug":"put_in_our_place_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/09\/put_in_our_place_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Put in Our Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder where you fit into the Big Picture? Well, now we have a pretty good idea:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Whereever you go, there you are.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/milky_way.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nUsing a network of radio telescopes spread across the globe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10385928\/\">astronomers have determined<\/a>  that the distance from our solar system to the nearest spiral arm of the galaxy (we&#8217;re in the gap between two arms)  is 1.95 plus or minus 0.04 kilo<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parsec\">parsecs<\/a>, or about 36,000,000,000,000,000 miles. That&#8217;s a pretty long trip, even at &#8220;point-five past lightspeed.&#8221; Just a little something to think about on this chilly Friday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder where you fit into the Big Picture? Well, now we have a pretty good idea: Using a network of radio telescopes spread across the globe, astronomers have determined that the distance from our solar system to the nearest spiral arm of the galaxy (we&#8217;re in the gap between two arms) is 1.95 plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}