{"id":996,"date":"2014-11-25T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2014-11-25T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:45:59","slug":"building-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Building the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_997\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lunar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-997\" class=\"wp-image-997 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lunar-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of jagged landscape features\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lunar-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Lunar.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unidentified, possibly an early model of supposed lunar surface, c. 1900-25. Image courtesy: State Library of Victoria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I discovered this intriguing photograph while doing an image search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">work<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.slv.vic.gov.au\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&amp;reset_config=true&amp;docId=SLV_VOYAGER2171743http:\/\/www.slv.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">catalogue entry<\/a> at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slv.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Library of Victoria<\/a>, this may an imagined view of the Moon&#8217;s surface. Believable, with those craters and craggy mountains. But for what purpose? The image comes from a lantern slide, making me think that it&#8217;s likely a photograph of a\u00a0stage or movie set. Does anyone recognize the scene?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered this intriguing photograph while doing an image search for work. According to the catalogue entry at\u00a0the State Library of Victoria, this may an imagined view of the Moon&#8217;s surface. Believable, with those craters and craggy mountains. But for what purpose? The image comes from a lantern slide, making me think that it&#8217;s likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}