{"id":1711,"date":"2007-09-08T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/08\/the-loss-of-night\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:40:34","slug":"the-loss-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/08\/the-loss-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loss of Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the last time I saw the milky way. I was at my aunt&#8217;s house in the foothills of the Sierras, and late at night the dense river of stars emerges. But that is still not the true milky way, or so I hear. And, in more urban areas, the detritus of our incandescent society reduces the night sky to an inchoate glow. This <a href = \"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/08\/20\/070820fa_fact_owen?printable=true\">article<\/a> in the New Yorker talks about the poorly designed night time illumination that has resulted in our current situation, and what can be and is being done about it.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href = \"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/07\/09\/08\/1635219.shtml\">Slashdot<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the last time I saw the milky way. I was at my aunt&#8217;s house in the foothills of the Sierras, and late at night the dense river of stars emerges. But that is still not the true milky way, or so I hear. And, in more urban areas, the detritus of our incandescent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/08\/the-loss-of-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Loss of Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron","category-astronomy","category-guest_bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}