{"id":18268,"date":"2015-02-28T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18268"},"modified":"2015-02-28T01:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T08:12:33","slug":"18268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/18268.html","title":{"rendered":"The large and the small of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18269\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/Galaxie_peinture.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18269\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/Galaxie_peinture.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's image of a galaxy\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of unnumbered galaxies in the universe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A very fun site for visualizing \u2014 to the very limited extent that we\u2019re <em>capable<\/em> of visualizing \u2014 the vast size of the universe and the unbelievably small proportions of some of the things within it. \u00a0The range is beyond breathtaking:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.htwins.net\/scale2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.htwins.net\/scale2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to David Wills for calling this site to my notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A very fun site for visualizing \u2014 to the very limited extent that we\u2019re capable of visualizing \u2014 the vast size of the universe and the unbelievably small proportions of some of the things within it. \u00a0The range is beyond breathtaking: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.htwins.net\/scale2\/ \u00a0 Thanks to David Wills for calling this site to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The large and the small of it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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