{"id":870,"date":"2006-08-24T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=870"},"modified":"2006-10-09T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:41:36","slug":"868-of-pity-poor-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"[868] Of pity poor Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar system now has officially eight planets. Pluto is a planet no more. I heard it over CNN last night <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pluto\">(tag)<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/5282440.stm?ls\">BBC has a nice report on it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the small, distant world demoted to a secondary category.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wikipedia as usual has a more detailed description of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all those religious freaks that insist they holy book(s) has(have) already said that there are nine planets in our system will need to revise their assertion.<\/p>\n<p>The God of the Underworld must be angry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar system now has officially eight planets. Pluto is a planet no more. I heard it over CNN last night (tag). BBC has a nice report on it: Astronomers have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. About 2,500 scientists meeting in Prague have adopted historic new guidelines that see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}