{"id":966,"date":"2009-03-23T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:32:55","slug":"celebrate-international-year-of-astronomy-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate International Year of Astronomy in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scc-fl.edu\/planet\/\">Seminole Community College Planetarium <\/a>is proud to present &#8220;The History of Astronomy,&#8221; the first in a series of special events celebrating the 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy2009.us\/\">International Year of Astronomy<\/a>. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in the Fine Arts Concert Hall at 7 p.m., to be followed by telescope viewings of Saturn and other beautiful celestial objects by the Central Florida Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seminole Community College Planetarium is proud to present &#8220;The History of Astronomy,&#8221; the first in a series of special events celebrating the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-fA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":982,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=982","url_meta":{"origin":966,"position":0},"title":"100 Hours of Astronomy!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy, this week features 100 Hours of Astronomy. 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