{"id":119,"date":"2009-02-20T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-02-20T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T22:05:22","slug":"change-of-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/119","title":{"rendered":"Change of Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When looking up at the moon, it&#8217;s always this monochrome, barren disk in the night sky. The reverse view is something I still find rather wonderful and refreshing, despite having been around since the Apollo landings in the 1960s. Standing on the barren rock and looking up to a strangely coloured marble against a pitch black background \u2014 it looks so fake, yet it is a change of perspective that would do good for a lot of people on our planet when it comes to the ridiculous matters we fight for.<\/p>\n<p>This is a video of Earth rise as seen by the Japanese space probe Kaguya currently orbiting the moon, taken on April 5, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Full earth-rise on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ToOIKIHW4U&amp;feature=channel\" target=\"_blank\">Click for video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking up at the moon, it&#8217;s always this monochrome, barren disk in the night sky. The reverse view is something I still find rather wonderful and refreshing, despite having been around since the Apollo landings in the 1960s. Standing on the barren rock and looking up to a strangely coloured marble against a pitch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Change of Perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[4,24],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-random-thoughts","tag-space-flight","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}