{"id":30726,"date":"2020-11-28T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30726"},"modified":"2020-11-28T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:43:36","slug":"carl-sagan-on-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30726","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan On Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Carl_Sagan_On_Curiosity-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carl Sagan On Curiosity\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Carl_Sagan_On_Curiosity-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Carl_Sagan_On_Curiosity.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen Hadley writes: Carl Sagan describes the problem with modern education. I never lost my curiosity. My eclectic curiosity can make me a little random or non-sequitur at times but that&#8217;s okay with me. Being this way makes me a much better writer because if I want to, I can get curious about almost anything. And that curiosity triggers study, understanding, development of a viewpoint and then the ability to write about that topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Hadley writes: Carl Sagan describes the problem with modern education. I never lost my curiosity. My eclectic curiosity can make me a little random or non-sequitur at times but that&#8217;s okay with me. Being this way makes me a much better writer because if I want to, I can get curious about almost anything. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carl Sagan On Curiosity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30728,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30726\/revisions\/30728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}