{"id":49763,"date":"2023-08-20T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49763"},"modified":"2023-09-01T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:34:17","slug":"year-50-day-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/08\/20\/year-50-day-110\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 50 Day 110"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1170,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/physics-astronomy.exeter.ac.uk\\\/staff\\\/njm202?sm=njm202&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231004155627\\\/https:\\\/\\\/physics-astronomy.exeter.ac.uk\\\/staff\\\/njm202?sm=njm202&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/physics-astronomy.exeter.ac.uk\\\/people\\\/profile\\\/index.php?web_id=njm202&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:05:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:05:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1171,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.istagegroup.com\\\/act\\\/ody.c&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d110-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A dark photo of my wife and I, both wearing masks, sitting in auditorium seats. People around us are half-visible and blurred due to the long exposure.\" title=\"y50d110.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"3020\" height=\"2268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 110: Today included watching England fall to Spain in the final match of the Women&#8217;s World Cup (to great dismay among the fans gathered in the ship&#8217;s onboard pub), the first in a series of four talks by astrophysicist <a href=\"https:\/\/physics-astronomy.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/njm202?sm=njm202\">Prof. Nathan Mayne of the University of Exeter<\/a> about our search for habitable extrasolar worlds, a (somewhat entry level) planetarium show, a live performance by acapella-with-drums vocal performance group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.istagegroup.com\/act\/ody.c\">ODY-C<\/a> (technically fine but missing any real spark, making them dull and lifeless; basically Pentatonix for people who don&#8217;t want to risk raising their heart rate), closing out with big band music on the big dance floor and dancing to a fun pop cover band and DJ in the ship&#8217;s nightclub.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bonus photos: The agony of defeat in the pub, waiting for the astrophysics lecture to begin, and listening to live big band music.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d110b1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Viewers react to England&#39;s World Cup loss in the shipboard pub.\" title=\"y50d110b1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d110b2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A view of the lecture hall and planetarium from the back, with people starting to take seats and an image of a starfield on the screen on the stage.\" title=\"y50d110b2.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/y50d110b3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Musicians playing big band music from the stage at the front of the dancefloor of the ship&#39;s ballroom.\" title=\"y50d110b3.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A World Cup loss, an astrophysics lecture, and a lot of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[5760,5686],"class_list":["post-49763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-vacation","tag-year-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}