{"id":552,"date":"2004-08-02T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=552"},"modified":"2004-08-02T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T18:57:09","slug":"shooting_star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month, I hope to get a chance to check out some of this month’s meteor showers<\/a>. Astronomy was an interest of mine when I was a kid, but I never got a telescope because there was no easy way for me to look into it from my wheelchair. Now, I could probably get one that connects to a notebook computer, but that doesn’t make much sense when I live in an urban downtown. My family owns a summer home in Door County, Wisconsin and I remember that we had some excellent views of the night sky in our backyard. I don’t think I’ll be driving all that way, but perhaps I can find a field somewhere outside the Twin Cities. Can any local stargazers tell me of a favorite spot?
\nAll the talking heads this morning were blathering on about how Kerry hasn’t received much of a post-convention bounce<\/a> in the polls. Unless there is a major turn of events, I really doubt you’re going to see much of a spread in the polls. Most people have already made up their minds. Swing voters are supposedly the key to the election, but I keep saying that it will all come down to turning out the base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month, I hope to get a chance to check out some of this month’s meteor showers. Astronomy was an interest of mine when I was a kid, but I never got a telescope because there was no easy way for me to look into it from my wheelchair. Now, I could probably get one […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}