{"id":12273,"date":"2011-12-06T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2011-12-06T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:30:05","slug":"how-to-win-a-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12273","title":{"rendered":"How to Win A Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favorite photograph out of the way too many we took, maybe a couple thousand, digital allows profligacy, is this one. \u00a0I took it at the command center for the 4 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo, the one which Brain Schmidt used, with two others, to prove the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating, an achievement for which the three together won a 2011 Nobel Prize. \u00a0Polite, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-11-05_3150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12274\" title=\"2011 11 05_3150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-11-05_3150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-11-05_3150.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-11-05_3150-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice Perhaps my favorite photograph out of the way too many we took, maybe a couple thousand, digital allows profligacy, is this one. \u00a0I took it at the command center for the 4 meter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12273\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Win A Nobel Prize<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[3829,3776,3830],"class_list":["post-12273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","category-travel","tag-cerro-tololo","tag-chile","tag-nobel-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}