{"id":1134,"date":"2008-10-14T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T00:31:46","slug":"tuesday-october-14-2008-the-notorious-overhead-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, October 14, 2008 \u2014 The Notorious Overhead Projector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ever won\u00adder about that \u201cthree mil\u00adlion dol\u00adlar ear\u00admark for an over\u00adhead pro\u00adjec\u00adtor\u201d that is such an impor\u00adtant talk\u00ading point in John McCain\u2019s elec\u00adtion cam\u00adpaign?&nbsp;Accord\u00ading to an arti\u00adcle in this week\u2019s Sci\u00adence News, it turns out that the \u201cover\u00adhead pro\u00adjec\u00adtor\u201d is the Zeis star pro\u00adjec\u00adtor in the ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble Adler Plan\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adum in Chica\u00adgo. Like the oth\u00ader two major Amer\u00adi\u00adcan plan\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adums in New York and Los Ange\u00adles, the Adler must replace its fifty-year old instru\u00adment, which the orig\u00adi\u00adnal Ger\u00adman man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ader will no longer ser\u00advice. As with the oth\u00ader two, the request for fed\u00ader\u00adal fund\u00ading is rou\u00adtine, and no politi\u00adcian would dream of vot\u00ading against it. The three plan\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adums teach the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtals of astron\u00ado\u00admy to mil\u00adlions of urban school chil\u00addren who have nev\u00ader seen a clear night star-filled sky, and are basic ameni\u00adties of major cities. The cost of a few mil\u00adlion dol\u00adlars amor\u00adtized over half a cen\u00adtu\u00adry is triv\u00adial. No politi\u00adcian in any of the three states involved would have vot\u00aded oth\u00ader\u00adwise. Could any\u00adthing bet\u00adter demon\u00adstrate the dis\u00adhon\u00adesty and the mind-bog\u00adgling igno\u00adrance of the McCain campaign?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever won\u00adder about that \u201cthree mil\u00adlion dol\u00adlar ear\u00admark for an over\u00adhead pro\u00adjec\u00adtor\u201d that is such an impor\u00adtant talk\u00ading point in John McCain\u2019s elec\u00adtion cam\u00adpaign?&nbsp;Accord\u00ading to an arti\u00adcle in this week\u2019s Sci\u00adence News, it turns out that the \u201cover\u00adhead pro\u00adjec\u00adtor\u201d&nbsp;is&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1134\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}