{"id":14434,"date":"2003-12-15T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/birthday-star\/"},"modified":"2003-12-15T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T18:39:00","slug":"birthday-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/birthday-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Tell the <a href=\"http:\/\/outreach.jach.hawaii.edu\/birthstars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birthday Stars computer<\/a> when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we&rsquo;re seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.&rdquo;  <a href=\"http:\/\/outreach.jach.hawaii.edu\/birthstars\/birthstars.php?day=01&amp;year=1972&amp;month=9\" target=\"_blank\">My current birthday star is <em>61 Ursae Majoris<\/em> in the constellation Ursa Major<\/a>, at a magnitude of 5.31 barely visible with the naked eye.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/presurfer.meepzorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Presurfer<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107151358807848243?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we&rsquo;re seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.&rdquo; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/birthday-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthday Star&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}