{"id":1575,"date":"2008-12-24T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2008-12-24T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T14:14:47","slug":"merry-christmas-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, tomorrow&#8217;s Christmas &#8211; and tonight is Christmas Eve. To everyone out there (whether you celebrate Christmas or not), I hope you have a happy one.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of &#8220;peace on Earth&#8221; and all that, <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap081224.html\">today&#8217;s Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> really choked me up &#8211; as it always does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/earthrise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1576\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-earth\/earthrise\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/earthrise.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2400,2400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"earthrise\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/earthrise-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1576\" title=\"earthrise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/12\/earthrise-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"earthrise\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/earthrise-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/earthrise-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/earthrise-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s just a picture, but&#8230; remember, we all &#8211; <strong>THAT&#8217;S ALL OF US, EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US<\/strong> &#8211; share that little blue marble you see there. So, y&#8217;know, be good to one another, don&#8217;t be afraid of strangers, and try to keep the joy of this season with you all year &#8217;round.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, Earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, tomorrow&#8217;s Christmas &#8211; and tonight is Christmas Eve. To everyone out there (whether you celebrate Christmas or not), I hope you have a happy one. And speaking of &#8220;peace on Earth&#8221; and all that, today&#8217;s Astronomy Picture of the Day really choked me up &#8211; as it always does. I know it&#8217;s just a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas, Earth<\/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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[32,84],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-pp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":694,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1575,"position":0},"title":"Merry Christmas!!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Merry Christmas to one and all! 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I'm feelin' the Christmas spirit here, folks.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/12\/26\/weather-oddities\/","url_meta":{"origin":1575,"position":5},"title":"Weather Oddities","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So, back home it hasn't snowed yet but here in Australia it was a white Christmas for some people (though not here where I am; it was just the coldest Christmas in 13 years).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"personal","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}