{"id":1035,"date":"2017-05-04T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2017-05-03T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T18:42:38","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging through back issues of <em>S&amp;T<\/em> yesterday, I found the ad that shaped my first telescope-buying decision:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1036\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1036\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1036\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_57-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_57-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_57-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_57.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Sky &amp; Telescope<\/i>, August 1983, p. 145.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And I found the ad that probably shaped my friend Mike&#8217;s first telescope-buying decision:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1037\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1037\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_62-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_62-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_62-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Page_62.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Sky &amp; Telescope<\/i>, August 1983, p. 151.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging through back issues of S&amp;T yesterday, I found the ad that shaped my first telescope-buying decision: And I found the ad that probably shaped my friend Mike&#8217;s first telescope-buying decision:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}