{"id":173310,"date":"2015-01-07T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/07\/sagansense-i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:21:57","slug":"sagansense-i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/07\/sagansense-i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-173310 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/07\/sagansense-i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while\/attachment\/173311\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nho37wGHau1r01w8mo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nho37wGHau1r01w8mo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nho37wGHau1r01w8mo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sagansense.tumblr.com\/post\/107328151500\/i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while-melissa-and-i-were\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">sagansense<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>I stumbled upon this book while <a href=\"http:\/\/lawngirl.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa<\/a> and I were wandering through <a href=\"http:\/\/phillyaidsthrift.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">an antique\/vintage store in South Philadelphia called Philly AIDS Thrift<\/a>. Intrigued by the title visible to me by the spine, this quick glimpse spurred nostalgia as I immediately could hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1h5o65_carl-sagan-s-cosmos-e07-the-backbone-of-night_tv\" target=\"_blank\">Carl\u2019s voice from Episode 7 of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, \u201cThe Backbone of Night\u201d<\/a>, where he passed on <a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey\/videos\/star-spotting-in-bensonhurst\/?cmp=user_post\" target=\"_blank\">some memories of his own<\/a>\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&ldquo;Even with an early bedtime, in the winter, you could occasionally see the stars. I would look up at them and wonder what they were. I\u2019d ask other kids and adults and they would answer, &rdquo;<i>they\u2019re lights in the sky, kid.<\/i>&ldquo; I could tell they were <i>lights in the sky<\/i>, but what <i>were<\/i> they? There had to be some deeper answer.<\/p>\n<p>I remember I was issued my first library card\u2026and I asked the librarian for a book on stars. She gave me a funny kind of picture book with portraits of men and women with names like Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. I explained that wasn\u2019t what I wanted, at all. And for some reason then obscured to me, she smiled, and got me another book \u2014 the right kind of book.<\/p>\n<p>I was so excited to know the answer that I opened the book breathlessly right there in the library, and the book said something astonishing. A very big thought. Stars, it said, were suns, but very far away. The sun was a star, but close up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Thanks for the memories (and yours), Carl.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sagansense: I stumbled upon this book while Melissa and I were wandering through an antique\/vintage store in South Philadelphia called Philly AIDS Thrift. Intrigued by the title visible to me by the spine, this quick glimpse spurred nostalgia as I immediately could hear Carl\u2019s voice from Episode 7 of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, \u201cThe Backbone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/07\/sagansense-i-stumbled-upon-this-book-while\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3832,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173312,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173310\/revisions\/173312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}