{"id":545,"date":"2006-05-05T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2006-05-05T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T11:27:09","slug":"a_shining_planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/05\/a_shining_planet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shining Planet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/johnmscalzi\/bytheway\/\">Scalzi&#8217;s AOL Journal<\/a>, here&#8217;s a lovely true-color photo of our little corner of the universe. It&#8217;s a mosaic assembled from multiple satellite images. I&#8217;ve seen pictures similar to this before, but they never fail to take my breath away. I especially like the glint of sunlight over Baja. That&#8217;s a detail that all those <i>Star Trek<\/i> episodes seemed to miss. Click on the picture to see it larger, click <a href=\"http:\/\/visibleearth.nasa.gov\/view_rec.php?id=2429\">here <\/a>for other (and even larger) images&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/globe_west_540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A shining planet known as... Earth!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/globe_west_540-thumb.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Scalzi&#8217;s AOL Journal, here&#8217;s a lovely true-color photo of our little corner of the universe. It&#8217;s a mosaic assembled from multiple satellite images. I&#8217;ve seen pictures similar to this before, but they never fail to take my breath away. I especially like the glint of sunlight over Baja. That&#8217;s a detail that all [&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-545","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\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}