{"id":617941,"date":"2010-01-01T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2010-01-01T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T20:10:49","slug":"after-christmas-comes-a-wiseman-from-the-east-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617941","title":{"rendered":"After Christmas comes a Wiseman from the east | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/12\/wiseman_me.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"wiseman_me\" title=\"wiseman_me\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9374\"\/>Richard Wiseman is funny, smart, personable, and uncommonly handsome. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/nycskeptics.org\/lectures\/wiseman\">He&#8217;ll also be giving a talk on January 5th<\/a> in New York City promoting his new book 59 Seconds. Called &#8220;Investigating the Impossible&#8221;, it&#8217;s sponsored by the NYC Skeptics. It&#8217;s free and open to the public. He really is a great speaker, and if you&#8217;re near the Big Apple you should go. And tell him how good-looking he is. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUAsTSlGhSgtv7Bqdke4Ru7WMjw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUAsTSlGhSgtv7Bqdke4Ru7WMjw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUAsTSlGhSgtv7Bqdke4Ru7WMjw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUAsTSlGhSgtv7Bqdke4Ru7WMjw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/Wv0H1tl7iZM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/RtQUfUUCWQI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Wiseman is funny, smart, personable, and uncommonly handsome. He&#8217;ll also be giving a talk on January 5th in New York City promoting his new book 59 Seconds. Called &#8220;Investigating the Impossible&#8221;, it&#8217;s sponsored by the NYC Skeptics. It&#8217;s free and open to the public. He really is a great speaker, and if you&#8217;re near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AKN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}