{"id":43,"date":"2010-01-22T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-03-02T20:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:14:41","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ares.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25\" title=\"Launchpad at KSC. Credit: NASA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ares-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ares-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ares.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launchpad at KSC. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welcome to my new blog!  Nancy here, writing my first post on my brand-spanking new website.  I&#8217;ve had a personal website for a couple of years, highlighting the writing I do for Universe Today and other sites, as well as sharing info about the other projects I&#8217;m involved with, but I have never had a personal blog.  But several months ago my friend, mentor and boss, Fraser Cain &#8212; the publisher of Universe Today &#8212; casually mentioned that I should add a blog to my website.  And I&#8217;ve been thinking about it ever since.   The impetus for doing this now is that I&#8217;ll soon be off on an adventure to cover several launches at Kennedy Space Center.  While I&#8217;ll be able to write about this for Universe Today, there might be other things I get to see and do that might not be newsworthy enough for an article on one of the most popular space and astronomy news websites in the world!<\/p>\n<p>But I still might want to write about them.  So here I am now at my own blog.  I can&#8217;t guarantee that I&#8217;ll post regularly to this site, as my three jobs with Universe Today, Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy keep me pretty busy.  There are still a few maintenance issues I need to do on the site, so its not quite perfect yet.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the information from my old site can be found on the tabs above:  links to some of what I consider my &#8220;best&#8221; articles, the various book and movie reviews I&#8217;ve written (<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sorry that&#8217;s not complete yet<\/span> now done!), info about the Solar System Ambassador program, as well as how to get in touch with me.<\/p>\n<p>After browsing through the plethora of marvelous WordPress themes, I chose this one, <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtybluemedia.com\/portfolio\/desk-space-wordpress-theme\/\">Desk Space,<\/a> which seems appropriate since every day I sit at a desk and write about space.  The permanent stain at the top of the page is fitting, since I am never without a cup of tea by my computer, usually in my NASA mug.<\/p>\n<p>So, here I go.  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