{"id":2681,"date":"2017-04-26T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2017-04-26T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:51:54","slug":"when-traditional-stories-meet-a-budding-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/when-traditional-stories-meet-a-budding-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"When traditional stories meet a budding astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago mom, me and Vir (my nephew) were taking an evening walk and mom decided to tell Vir a story to keep him entertained. So here&#8217;s how the conversation went:<\/p>\n<p>[Mom] Vir, see there is <i>Chanda Mamma<\/i> (the moon)<br \/>\n[Vir] No, that is not Chanda Mama, that is Earth&#8217;s Moon and other planets like Jupiter also have moon&#8217;s. (and he went on about various planets and their moon&#8217;s for a while)<\/p>\n<p>At this point mom didn&#8217;t know how to proceed so we changed the topic. After a few days she thought she would try again, this time we were driving to get Ice cream and here&#8217;s how the conversation went this time: <\/p>\n<p>[Vir] Nani, look there is the Moon.<br \/>\n[Mom] Yes, the moon (<i>Chanda Mama<\/i>) has come out because <i>Suraj Chacha<\/i> (the Sun) has gone to sleep.<br \/>\n[Vir] No, Sun doesn&#8217;t sleep, It is night because earth rotates and the sun is now on the other side of earth so we can&#8217;t see it. The moon is on the same side and so is visible.<br \/>\n[Mom] I give up&#8230; All I wanted to do was to tell him a story about the sun and the moon. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think she will be telling him any more stories about the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago mom, me and Vir (my nephew) were taking an evening walk and mom decided to tell Vir a story to keep him entertained. So here&#8217;s how the conversation went: [Mom] Vir, see there is Chanda Mamma (the moon) [Vir] No, that is not Chanda Mama, that is Earth&#8217;s Moon and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}