{"id":9,"date":"2005-08-06T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-04-03T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:58:42","slug":"while-you-were-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"While You Were Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News you may have missed while basking in the summer sun:<\/p>\n<li> Baby giant pandas were born at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/Animals\/GiantPandas\/\">National Zoo<\/a> in Washington, D.C. (<strong>July 9<\/strong>) and the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.sandiegozoo.org\/zoo\/ex_panda_station.html\/\">San Diego Zoo<\/a> in California (<strong>August 2<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li> Also on <strong>July 9<\/strong>, Lizzie turned 14.<\/li>\n<li> On <strong>July 26<\/strong>, the space shuttle was launched for the first time since January 2003. The hull was damaged during liftoff, and now astronauts are working to make sure they can land safely.<\/li>\n<li> On <strong>July 28<\/strong>, ChinTsu turned 13.  <\/li>\n<li> On <strong>July 29<\/strong>, three astronomers announced that they had discovered a ball of rock and ice slightly bigger than Pluto, orbiting farther from the sun. Astronomers disagree about whether to call the object a planet, or whether to lump both it and Pluto together with a swarm of thousands of rock-ice chunks  found in the same chilly neighborhood.<\/li>\n<li> On <strong>August 1<\/strong>, sound recordings from a wildlife refuge in Arkansas gave more evidence that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/ivory\/\">ivory-billed woodpecker<\/a> was not extinct as scientists had feared for 60 years (see <i>Muse<\/i>, February 2005).<\/li>\n<li> On <strong>August 3<\/strong>, after three years of nonstop work, biologists in South Korea announced that they had cloned an Afghan hound.<\/li>\n<p><em>Coming up:<\/p>\n<li> August 15: Happy birthday, Morbid! (Were <strong>all<\/strong> Musers born in the summer?!)<\/li>\n<li> August 31: Deadline for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketmag.com\/activity_display.asp?id=33\"><em>Muse<\/em> contest<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News you may have missed while basking in the summer sun:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-muse-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}