{"id":961,"date":"2014-02-26T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:07:29","slug":"spacefaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spacefaring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this odd but compelling <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/78024009\">Spacefaring<\/a> video about the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) while doing some research on Achyut Kanvinde&#8217;s design for the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad (1954). I can&#8217;t decide how I feel about contrast between &#8220;villager&#8221; and &#8220;science&#8221;. The video is also a little misleading, as India&#8217;s space port is in Andhra Pradesh (just up the east coast from Chennai). On the other hand, I watched it twice, which means it captured and held my interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this odd but compelling Spacefaring video about the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) while doing some research on Achyut Kanvinde&#8217;s design for the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad (1954). I can&#8217;t decide how I feel about contrast between &#8220;villager&#8221; and &#8220;science&#8221;. The video is also a little misleading, as India&#8217;s space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}