{"id":233,"date":"2011-03-30T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-10-18T22:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:34:36","slug":"mercury-comes-into-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Comes Into View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-235\" title=\"mercury\" src=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got all shivery when I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9215339\/NASA_s_Messenger_grabs_historic_image_of_Mercury\">first image of Mercury<\/a> taken from its own orbit. Photographs taken in outer space just put it all in perspective for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury-bakery-Clarke2003-105-248x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-236\" title=\"mercury - pompeii\" src=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mercury-bakery-Clarke2003-105-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an ancient depiction of the god Mercury from a bakery in Pompeii. This puts it all in another kind of perspective. Look at that, um, loaf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got all shivery when I saw this first image of Mercury taken from its own orbit. Photographs taken in outer space just put it all in perspective for me. Here&#8217;s an ancient depiction of the god Mercury from a bakery in Pompeii. This puts it all in another kind of perspective. Look at that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}