Every time I look up into the starry night sky, I see the constellation Orion. For reasons that remain mysterious to me, it is always the very first constellation I see. This has been true since I was a little child, and my dad first pointed out to me the constellations, one beautiful summer night in the Catskill mountains.<\/p>\n
I realized as I got older that this is something that I can say I have shared with people all over the world for as long as the human race has existed. Every time I look up at Orion now I think of my connection with all of humanity, and I realize how fortunate we are to be able to share such a beautiful universe with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every time I look up into the starry night sky, I see the constellation Orion. For reasons that remain mysterious to me, it is always the very first constellation I see. This has been true since I was a little child, and my dad first pointed out to me the constellations, one beautiful summer night … Continue reading “Orion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}