{"id":1340,"date":"2007-04-20T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/20\/facing-mars\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T07:56:37","slug":"facing-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/20\/facing-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/781003.html\">James Nicoll<\/a>, a post he describes as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00000948\/\">someone actively working in a particular field of science talk[ing] about how they went from embracing wingnuttery to more fruitful activities<\/a>,&#8221; in this case regarding the &#8220;Face on Mars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, other than a couple of passing mentions (he name-checks Richard Hoagland and Carl Sagan, and mentions overdosing on Art Bell), there&#8217;s very little detail about that transition. And, really, I think hearing the story of how the author went from believing in a real face on Mars to taking high-resolution pictures of the Cydonia plateau would be a lot more interesting than, well, than another picture of the Cydonia plateau.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cool picture, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via James Nicoll, a post he describes as &#8220;someone actively working in a particular field of science talk[ing] about how they went from embracing wingnuttery to more fruitful activities,&#8221; in this case regarding the &#8220;Face on Mars.&#8221; Sadly, other than a couple of passing mentions (he name-checks Richard Hoagland and Carl Sagan, and mentions overdosing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/20\/facing-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facing Mars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}