{"id":1136,"date":"2009-09-21T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2009\/09\/21\/the-sun-like-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T18:39:22","slug":"the-sun-like-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/21\/the-sun-like-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Like The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/stephenpickering\/F1CnNh9lxxQoZUy0dl6i7iLR6WrkSx53ThVCgni1YLrz73Q1rCYMM40rJcd0\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/stephenpickering\/hxKsTaTLykbrwDBvb4J717ktaUSWVdRtYGaviJ9kemp2CfrfZ7ihC5yL3e4D\/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enough fog this morning to look directly at it. 93 million miles away and it&#8217;s as large in the sky as the Moon at a quarter million miles. A million Earths would fit in it. Every atom in our bodies was made in the very center of such a star. Amazing how literally acurate the myths are when the say we are it&#8217;s children. Who will be our Sun&#8217;s children? What will they do, who will they be, how will they feel? If digital is eternal will one of them happen to read this? I wonder if he&#8217;ll wonder how I felt just at this moment. Or is that moment and that one, and all the same?<\/p>\n<p>My message? I think about you.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-9460716267036836\"; \/* 336x280, created 8\/3\/09 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"2685588366\"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenpickering.posterous.com\/the-sun-like-the-moon\">stephenpickering&#8217;s posterous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough fog this morning to look directly at it. 93 million miles away and it&#8217;s as large in the sky as the Moon at a quarter million miles. A million Earths would fit in it. Every atom in our bodies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/21\/the-sun-like-the-moon\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,54],"tags":[436,101,100],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-photos","tag-photos","tag-sky","tag-sun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}