{"id":174,"date":"2010-11-16T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/11\/16\/cosmos_and_kapoor\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:33:05","slug":"cosmos_and_kapoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/11\/16\/cosmos_and_kapoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmos and Kapoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having delighted in Jacob Bronowski&#8217;s <em>The Ascent of Man<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/scurry\/2010\/04\/25\/an-astonishing-ascent\">earlier this year<\/a>, I sat down to watch Carl Sagan&#8217;s <em>Cosmos<\/em>, which several commenters had recommended to me.<\/p>\n<p>You can read what I thought of it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/punctuated-equilibrium\/2010\/nov\/15\/3\">my guest post<\/a> at Grrlscientist&#8217;s Punctuated Equilibrium blog over at <em>The Guardian<\/em>. As you will see, it is wrapped up\u00a0with the recent apparition of shiny sculptures by Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens.<\/p>\n<p> See what you think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sc63\/5171734503\/\" title=\"Non object (spire) by sc63, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4145\/5171734503_5869e56a1f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Non object (spire)\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Non-object (Spire)&#8221; by Anish Kapoor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having delighted in Jacob Bronowski&#8217;s The Ascent of Man earlier this year, I sat down to watch Carl Sagan&#8217;s Cosmos, which several commenters had recommended to me. You can read what I thought of it in my guest post at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/11\/16\/cosmos_and_kapoor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-communication","category-tv-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}