{"id":419,"date":"2012-01-03T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2012-01-03T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:55:34","slug":"visiting-arecibo-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Arecibo Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/at-the-arecibo-observatory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"at-the-arecibo-observatory\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/at-the-arecibo-observatory-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"photograph arecibo observatory tourists\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/at-the-arecibo-observatory-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/at-the-arecibo-observatory-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/at-the-arecibo-observatory.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peace Corps Reunion at the Arecibo Observatory, 1987. Photo Courtesy: Juan E. Rosario<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I can&#8217;t resist sharing this tourist photo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=53\" target=\"_blank\">Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico<\/a>. The photo shows a group of former Peace Corps volunteers standing in front of the superstructure of the 305-meter radio telescope. The volunteers had reconvened on the island in July 1987 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expcvsbrazil.com\/groups\/dc\/mar62_br1\/historybr1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">4-S Brazil Peace Corps<\/a>. Apparently, this particular group of volunteers received their physical and health training in Puerto Rico before being shipped off to work in Brazil. <a href=\"http:\/\/brazilone6263.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/01\/photos-from-25th-anniversary-reunino-puerto-rico-1987\/\" target=\"_blank\">The reunion<\/a> allowed them an opportunity to visit &#8220;the old familiar places&#8221; as well as sites like the Arecibo Observatory, which hadn&#8217;t yet opened when they were training in the nearby village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t resist sharing this tourist photo of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The photo shows a group of former Peace Corps volunteers standing in front of the superstructure of the 305-meter radio telescope. The volunteers had reconvened on the island in July 1987 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 4-S Brazil Peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observatories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}