{"id":11599,"date":"2014-02-10T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/10\/one-thing-would-be-clear-about-us-no-one-sends\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:22:56","slug":"one-thing-would-be-clear-about-us-no-one-sends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/10\/one-thing-would-be-clear-about-us-no-one-sends\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One thing would be clear about us: no one sends such a message on such a journey, to other worlds and beings, without a positive passion for the future. For all the possible vagaries of the message, they could be sure that we were a species endowed with hope and perseverance, at least a little intelligence, substantial generosity and a palpable zest to make contact with the cosmos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Carl Sagan<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/10\/murmurs-of-earth-sagan-golden-record\/\">the story and spirit of the Golden Record, humanity\u2019s timeless message to the cosmos<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing would be clear about us: no one sends such a message on such a journey, to other worlds and beings, without a positive passion for the future. For all the possible vagaries of the message, they could be sure that we were a species endowed with hope and perseverance, at least a little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/02\/10\/one-thing-would-be-clear-about-us-no-one-sends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2714,503],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sagan","tag-space","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}