{"id":8600,"date":"2014-08-17T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2014-08-17T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T19:05:13","slug":"starry-eyed-a-history-of-the-heavens-on-the-backstory-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Starry Eyed: A History of the Heavens&#8221; on the BackStory radio show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public radio program <em><a href=\"http:\/\/backstoryradio.org\/\" target=\"_d\">BackStory with the American History Guys<\/a><\/em>\u00a0had a space themed show today\u00a0:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backstoryradio.org\/shows\/starry-eyed-rebroadcast\/\" target=\"_d\">Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens &#8211; BackStory with the American History Guys<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Americans have had an ongoing fascination with the skies above us, so in this episode,\u00a0we\u2019re taking on space.\u00a0How have people made sense of meteors, eclipses, and the stars? What has made us want to travel among them, to go to the moon, to Mars, or beyond? And how do things change for those of us here on earth when we do?\u00a0Peter, Ed, and Brian will be looking up, and looking back.<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F163297431&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&color=7ee6dd\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public radio program BackStory with the American History Guys\u00a0had a space themed show today\u00a0:\u00a0Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens &#8211; BackStory with the American History Guys Americans have had an ongoing fascination with the skies above us, so in this episode,\u00a0we\u2019re taking on space.\u00a0How have people made sense of meteors, eclipses, and the stars? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Starry Eyed: A History of the Heavens&#8221; on the BackStory radio show<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2eI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13465,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13465","url_meta":{"origin":8600,"position":0},"title":"Videos: First episode of Nat. 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