{"id":8009,"date":"2016-12-12T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T23:27:09","slug":"national-asteroid-day-decreed-by-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/12\/national-asteroid-day-decreed-by-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"National Asteroid Day decreed by QUEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2016\/12\/united-nations-committee-approves-brian-mays-new-i.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from PASTE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Thanks to Queen&#8217;s Brian May, We Now Have &#8220;International Asteroid Day&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"ovr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=monica+hunter-hart\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Hunter-Hart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/ad30.jpg\" alt=\"ad30\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fact that an asteroid could easily and suddenly obliterate Earth is something people usually try\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0to think about. But Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May would caution against blissful disregard; thanks to him and three co-founders, the U.N. Committee On The Peaceful Uses Of Outer Space have approved an annual awareness campaign in the form of \u201cInternational Asteroid Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In regards to this cosmic threat, May has\u00a0<a class=\"ovr\" href=\"http:\/\/asteroidday.org\/our-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a>, \u201cThe more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time.\u201d He added that asteroids hit Earth \u201call the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2016\/12\/united-nations-committee-approves-brian-mays-new-i.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE Thanks to Queen&#8217;s Brian May, We Now Have &#8220;International Asteroid Day&#8221; By\u00a0Monica Hunter-Hart The fact that an asteroid could easily and suddenly obliterate Earth is something people usually try\u00a0not\u00a0to think about. But Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May would caution against blissful disregard; thanks to him and three co-founders, the U.N. Committee On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}