{"id":12708,"date":"2013-12-20T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/12\/20\/carl-sagan-wanted-us-to-see-ourselves-not-as-the\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:49:57","slug":"carl-sagan-wanted-us-to-see-ourselves-not-as-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/12\/20\/carl-sagan-wanted-us-to-see-ourselves-not-as-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Carl [Sagan] wanted us to see ourselves not as the failed clay of a disappointed Creator but as starstuff, made of atoms forged in the fiery hearts of distant stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>We lost <strong>Carl Sagan<\/strong> 17 years ago today \u2013 here\u2019s his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/carl-sagan-varieties-of-scientific-experience\/\">timeless meditation on science and religion<\/a>.\u00a0 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl [Sagan] wanted us to see ourselves not as the failed clay of a disappointed Creator but as starstuff, made of atoms forged in the fiery hearts of distant stars. We lost Carl Sagan 17 years ago today \u2013 here\u2019s his timeless meditation on science and religion.\u00a0 (via explore-blog)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","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=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}