{"id":841,"date":"2005-01-05T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2005\/01\/05\/841\/"},"modified":"2005-01-05T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T21:01:00","slug":"841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DISINSPIRING:  Those air-bag Santas and snowmen out on the lawns of America are nice, but eventually they lose their inflation and start sagging and drooping.  Then they look so sad.  It\u2019s even worse when they deflate completely.  It then looks like a melted snowman (recall the melancholy ending to \u201cFrosty The Snowman\u201d); or even worse, as though someone mugged Santa and left his clothes out by the bushes.<\/p>\n<p>INSPIRING: I saw a short article in a religious magazine about the wonder of the Hubble Deep Field image.  Yes, that picture is indeed a wonderful thing.  It was taken by the  Hubble orbiting observatory back around 1996 and was able to detect over a thousand galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars &#8211; &#8211; even though the picture only represents a tiny sliver of the sky.  Because light takes so long to reach us from the far corners of the universe, some of the galaxies seen on the picture were very young, only around a billion years after the Big Bang (we\u2019re now about 14 billion years from the Bang).  Yea, some huge numbers at work here.  It\u2019s amazing and quite inspiring what humankind has been able to figure out about the universe . . . even though the astrophysicists say that almost everything they learn points to a new mystery (e.g., the accelerating expansion rate of the universe).  Just when they think they understand it pretty well, it turns out to be even more complicated than they first thought.  Nonetheless, humankind\u2019s efforts to understand the universe, and indeed the universe itself, are some of the most inspiring things out there these days.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/deepfield.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISINSPIRING: Those air-bag Santas and snowmen out on the lawns of America are nice, but eventually they lose their inflation and start sagging and drooping. Then they look so sad. It\u2019s even worse when they deflate completely. It then looks like a melted snowman (recall the melancholy ending to \u201cFrosty The Snowman\u201d); or even worse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}