{"id":47,"date":"2008-04-26T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-04-26T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T22:08:09","slug":"battlestar-galactica-near-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/26\/battlestar-galactica-near-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Galactica near Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I've enjoyed the \"re-imagining\" of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a> immensely so far. When it first aired, I thought it was a pretty corny idea, and didn't watch it, but I watched an odd episode here and there, and I began to realise that this was probably the most slick, dramatic, special effects laden sci-fi show yet. It's very addictive, and one of the <strong>very<\/strong> few TV shows I feel I don't want to miss an episode of.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I just sat down to watch season 4, episode 3 (no spoilers, don't worry!), and was very gratified to see Cylon base ships moving in a background that contained <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orion_%28constellation%29\">Orion<\/a>, absolutely no doubt about it, a nice touch to show Earth is near. Now Orion is the easiest constellation to see, and I admit I never paid attention to the background before, but it's just that kind of nice detail I like about the show. I'll keep looking for more constellations now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I've enjoyed the \"re-imagining\" of Battlestar Galactica immensely so far. When it first aired, I thought it was a pretty corny idea, and didn't watch it, but I watched an odd episode here and there, and I began to realise that this was probably the most slick, dramatic, special effects laden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-stem","tag-12-stem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52I4w-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}