{"id":1284,"date":"2017-06-04T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:15:13","slug":"june-4-2017-space-astronauts-and-earth-so-far-the-one-and-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/june-4-2017-space-astronauts-and-earth-so-far-the-one-and-only\/","title":{"rendered":"June 4  2017  Space, astronauts, and Earth, so far the one and only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1285\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250-768x1189.jpg 768w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250-624x966.jpg 624w, https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/horse0250.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I met Leland Melvin at the Tucson Literary Festival and he was a delight. He had done many things in his life but this was his first book. Just finished reading it.\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also this one: absolutely absorbing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1286\" src=\"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I could not wait to get back to a book. This one has many caveats as to why and how a planet could sustain life and water is only a small part of it. A planet that is &#8216;tidally locked&#8217; means only one side of it faces its sun, and the consequences of that are explained in ways easy to understand. Radiation is another factor&#8230;it&#8217;s a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I met Leland Melvin at the Tucson Literary Festival and he was a delight. He had done many things in his life but this was his first book. Just finished reading it.\u00a0 Highly recommended. &nbsp; Also this one: absolutely absorbing. &nbsp; It&#8217;s been a long time since I could not wait to get back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}