{"id":1655,"date":"2011-02-21T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/mark-twain-amateur-astronomer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:54:36","slug":"mark-twain-amateur-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/mark-twain-amateur-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain &#8212; Amateur Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cometriderstamp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 216px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cometriderstamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575954463132624066\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;I love to revel in philosophical matters &#8211; especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and I have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">~ Mark Twain <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">OK, so he hung out with Tesla and Edison. Now this&#8230; Could Mark Twain have had a pre-radio case of The Knack? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love to revel in philosophical matters &#8211; especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/mark-twain-amateur-astronomer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Twain &#8212; Amateur Astronomer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-twain-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}