{"id":147,"date":"2006-09-04T23:03:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=147"},"modified":"2006-09-04T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T04:03:49","slug":"pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/09\/04\/pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI am puzzled and fascinated by the amount of attention devoted by the media (and presumably the public) to the possible downgrade of Pluto from planet to something else. What&rsquo;s in a name, after all? Apparently a lot. But then I always tend to take an unsentimental view of things.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=pluto%20planet\">Pluto gets 5000 news stories<\/a> which is only barely less than the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=darfur\">6000 for Darfur<\/a>, despite Darfur being a fair bit more urgent, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=estonia\">Estonia only gets 2000<\/a> even though it is a lot closer than Pluto. But of course Pluto, planet or not, is a lot larger and older than either Darfur or Estonia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBest comment: <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003492.html\">Language log cites a reader<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOne side thinks it all-important that what people were taught in school should remain true forever (hence, Pluto is a planet). The other side thinks that classifications should be based on observable facts about the universe really does, and revised when necessary (hence, Pluto is a Kuiper belt object).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am puzzled and fascinated by the amount of attention devoted by the media (and presumably the public) to the possible downgrade of Pluto from planet to something else. What&rsquo;s in a name, after all? Apparently a lot. But then I always tend to take an unsentimental view of things. Pluto gets 5000 news stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}