{"id":3806,"date":"2010-03-19T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespacewriter.com\/wp\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2010-03-19T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:32:24","slug":"while-i-was-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespacewriter.com\/wp\/2010\/03\/19\/while-i-was-out\/","title":{"rendered":"While I Was Out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Teaching Astronomy on the High Seas<\/h2>\n<p>My latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/astrocast.tv\/tau\/astronomeru.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Astronomer&#8217;s Universe<\/a> went up at <a href=\"http:\/\/astrocast.tv\" target=\"_blank\">AstroCast.TV<\/a> on March 1. It&#8217;s Part 2 of my coverage of the January 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Astronomical Society<\/a> winter  meeting. 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