{"id":1416,"date":"2007-06-05T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:01:28","slug":"the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1416\/the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so little in the world that manages to take my breath away.  Many things I find beautiful, many things inspire awe, but little that takes the breath away.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to Bach&#8217;s Violin Concerto in A when I clicked on a link in my NASA Science News talking about a spacecraft heading to Mercury was currently swinging by Venus and would zap a laser into the clouds of Earth&#8217;s &#8220;Evil Twin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Evil twin&#8230;hmmmm.  And to think Venus was once goddess of love and beauty, I was thinking as I clicked the link, the concerto playing, and this came up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/images2\/venus.jpg\" height=\"368\" width=\"425\"\/><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap050625.html\">Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, it did take my breath away.  Just a moment.  But it managed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so little in the world that manages to take my breath away. Many things I find beautiful, many things inspire awe, but little that takes the breath away. I was listening to Bach&#8217;s Violin Concerto in A when I clicked on a link in my NASA Science News talking about a spacecraft heading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,381],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}