{"id":7866,"date":"2014-02-21T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2014-02-21T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:57:38","slug":"did-not-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/did-not-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"did not disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from rebecca mead&#8217;s great article about neil degrasse tyson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/02\/17\/140217fa_fact_mead\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;starman&#8221;<\/a> (big thanks to steve hely):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In early January, the American Astronomical Society held its annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. Tyson was scheduled to give an evening presentation, &#8220;Tales from the Twitterverse &amp; Other Media Excursions.&#8221; &#8230; Tyson talked for an hour and a half; then, as as technicians tried to clear the room, he kept talking, without amplification, to more than a hundred audience members, who mobbed him at the edge of the stage. After a while, a conference organizer walked onstage to drag him off to a reception for which he was already late. Tyson broke into a moonwalk, to roars of approval. &#8220;You&#8217;re all astronomers&#8211;learn to moonwalk!&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;ll need it one day!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid2538399966001\/?bctid=3168053641001&amp;autoStart=false\" height=\"267\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2014\/02\/video-moonwalking-with-neil-degrasse-tyson.html?intcid=obnetwork\" target=\"_blank\">the new yorker blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from rebecca mead&#8217;s great article about neil degrasse tyson, &#8220;starman&#8221; (big thanks to steve hely): In early January, the American Astronomical Society held its annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. Tyson was scheduled to give an evening presentation, &#8220;Tales from the Twitterverse &amp; Other Media Excursions.&#8221; &#8230; Tyson talked for an hour and a half; then, [&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-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","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=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}