{"id":2093,"date":"2016-06-22T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2016-06-22T02:38:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T02:38:11","slug":"burning-man-in-pictures-xxvi-stars-and-dinosaurs-the-dreams-of-the-eight-year-old-in-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/06\/22\/burning-man-in-pictures-xxvi-stars-and-dinosaurs-the-dreams-of-the-eight-year-old-in-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man in Pictures XXVI: Stars and Dinosaurs, the Dreams of the Eight-Year-Old in All of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last episode<\/a>, our adventurers took a brief timeout. They then started back towards centre camp, as the Sun was baking in a most merciless way.<\/p>\n

On the way, our intrepid heroine observed something, and went to investigate:<\/p>\n

\"Blackrock<\/a>
Blackrock Observatory! The best kind of tory!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our intrepid heroine performs an observation:<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>
Our intrepid heroine performs an observation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inside one of the domes, she found this exciting schedule of all the organized events happening at the observatory!:<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise,<\/a>
Sunrise, yoga, cosmic rays, math, and futurism! What an exciting slate of events!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another dome had a sign in front talking about what was currently being observed:<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We like this one, because it is close to us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our heroine then noticed a possibly familiar shape in the distance…:<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A familiar shape in the distance!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…And she went to investigate:<\/p>\n

\"Is<\/a>
Is that who I think it is? Let’s go investigate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And it was! It was her favourite assemblable wooden dinosaur<\/a> from childhood, writ large!:<\/p>\n

\"Your<\/a>
Your favourite assemblable wooden dinosaur, writ large!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It had obtained a number of decorations along the way, some for stegosauruses who like ice cream:<\/p>\n

\"Stegosauruses<\/a>
Stegosauruses *love* ice cream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some offering career advice:<\/p>\n

\"Career<\/a>
Career advice from the dino decorators.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some with different ideas for the power structures of civilization:<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A novel power structure for a civilization near you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But mostly, she spent some time communing until it was time to go:<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>
Our heroine, sharing a moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time, we find the truth, and visit the Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our last episode, our adventurers took a brief timeout. They then started back towards centre camp, as the Sun was baking in a most merciless way. On the way, our intrepid heroine observed something, and went to investigate: Our intrepid heroine performs an observation: Inside one of the domes, she found this exciting schedule … Continue reading Burning Man in Pictures XXVI: Stars and Dinosaurs, the Dreams of the Eight-Year-Old in All of Us<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}