{"id":1774,"date":"2008-01-01T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2008-01-01T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:00:21","slug":"happy-new-year-welcome-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-welcome-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!  Welcome 2008!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!  Seattle&#8217;s fireworks at the space needle had some technical difficulties (and the pyrotechnicians had to light them by hand&#8230;yeah I wrote that just to use the word &#8220;pyrotechnician&#8221;), but were still beautiful as ever:<br \/>\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pontiff-recovered-source-image\" data-restoration=\"sb-1774-0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pontiff-content-restoration\/assets\/scienceblogs\/7720d229ca31641e6a0d.jpg?resize=469%2C534&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Recovered original image: happynewyear2008.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"534\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/> Welcome 2008!  2008 is the international year of the potato, the international year of planet earth, and the international year of sanitation.  Oh, and it is a leap year!  And of further note, according to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in &#8220;The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye&#8221; 2008 is the year that faster than light travel was invented.  Now that should be exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Seattle&#8217;s fireworks at the space needle had some technical difficulties (and the pyrotechnicians had to light them by hand&#8230;yeah I wrote that just to use the word &#8220;pyrotechnician&#8221;), but were still beautiful as ever: Welcome 2008! 2008 is the international year of the potato, the international year of planet earth, and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-welcome-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year!  Welcome 2008!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}