{"id":7841,"date":"2014-02-19T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2014-02-19T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T22:49:28","slug":"trying-to-borrow-this-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/trying-to-borrow-this-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"trying to borrow this issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From Rebecca Mead\u2019s great profile of astrophysicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\" target=\"_blank\">Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a> in the new issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. Didn\u2019t know this but he\u2019s hosting an updated version of Carl Sagan\u2019s \u201cCosmos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the age of eleven, Tyson spoke with a teacher at P.S. 81 about his fascination with astronomy. Tyson\u2019s older brother Stephen, who is an artist, recalls \u201cThe teacher asked, \u2018Why do you want to go into science? There aren\u2019t any Negroes in the field. Why don\u2019t you go into sports?\u2019\u201d One evening, when he and his father were entering Van Cortlandt Park carrying a telescope, the police stopped them. \u201cI guess they thought it as a bazooka,\u201d [Tyson\u2019s mother] Sunchita says. \u201cJust keeping my kids on the straight and narrow\u2014and getting them not to hate people, in some instances, because of the way they were treated\u2014was a full-time job.\u201d On another occasion, police were called to Tyson\u2019s building by neighbors who were alarmed by his rooftop activities. Tyson ended up showing the officers the stars.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markrichardson.org\/post\/77137400429\/at-the-age-of-eleven-tyson-spoke-with-a-teacher\" target=\"_blank\">mark richardson)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>note: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a> on him is pretty good, too: &#8220;In 1985, he won a gold medal with the University of Texas dance team at a national tournament in the International Latin Ballroom style&#8221;; under\u00a0 honors: &#8220;2000 Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive, <i>People Magazine<\/i>;&#8221; and &#8220;He met his wife, Alice Young, in a physics class at the University of Texas. They married in 1988 and named their first child Miranda after one of Uranus&#8217; moons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rebecca Mead\u2019s great profile of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in the new issue of The New Yorker. Didn\u2019t know this but he\u2019s hosting an updated version of Carl Sagan\u2019s \u201cCosmos\u201d. At the age of eleven, Tyson spoke with a teacher at P.S. 81 about his fascination with astronomy. Tyson\u2019s older brother Stephen, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7857,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}