{"id":479,"date":"2008-10-02T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/?p=479"},"modified":"2008-10-02T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T22:33:31","slug":"the-telescope-400-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/the-telescope-400-years-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telescope: 400 Years and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/space\/news\/2008\/10\/telescope_kaku_essay_mainbar\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480\" title=\"The Telescope: 400 years and counting\" src=\"http:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/tele400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/tele400.jpg 338w, https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/tele400-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick &#8212; name the invention that has done most to redefine our place in the universe. Hint: This invention was also the most seditious, blasphemous instrument of all time, shaking the very foundations of society. The answer, if you haven&#8217;t already guessed it, is the telescope. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/space\/news\/2008\/10\/telescope_kaku_essay_mainbar\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the WIRED.com article &#8220;The Telescope: 400 Years and Counting&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick &#8212; name the invention that has done most to redefine our place in the universe. Hint: This invention was also the most seditious, blasphemous instrument of all time, shaking the very foundations of society. The answer, if you haven&#8217;t already guessed it, is the telescope. Read the WIRED.com article &#8220;The Telescope: 400 Years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[73,72,70,71,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkaku.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}