{"id":1229,"date":"2008-05-13T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/05\/13\/tycho\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:39:47","slug":"tycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/05\/13\/tycho\/","title":{"rendered":"Tycho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"I thought I had invented a webcomic in which these two could not guest.  I was so wrong.\">\n<p>Astronomy before Galileo&#8217;s telescope:  first, you wait for a clear night, and second, you look <i>really hard.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Third, you keep looking for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>One night a new star appears in Cassiopeia, and an archangel appears on a hilltop.  &#8220;Hark!&#8221; he yells at a startled man.  &#8220;A king is born in who the hell are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Tycho,&#8221; says the man, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the right star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seriously?  What year is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tycho tells him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh <i>Christ,<\/i>&#8221; says Gabriel, and leaps backward in time.<\/p>\n<p>Tycho rubs his golden nose, blinking for the first time all week.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomy before Galileo&#8217;s telescope: first, you wait for a clear night, and second, you look really hard. Third, you keep looking for the rest of your life. One night a new star appears in Cassiopeia, and an archangel appears on a hilltop. &#8220;Hark!&#8221; he yells at a startled man. &#8220;A king is born in who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1570,2045],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gabriel","tag-tycho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}