{"id":13079,"date":"2010-08-23T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2010-08-23T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T01:36:26","slug":"star-gazer-jack-horkheimer-1938-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/star-gazer-jack-horkheimer-1938-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer ( 1938 &#8211; 2010 )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, a legendary <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jackstargazer.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Star Gazer<\/a> <\/em>passed.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8m_pmPTvgk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8m_pmPTvgk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday afternoon J<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Horkheimer:_Star_Gazer\" class=\"external external_icon\">ack Horkheimer<\/a>, veteran astronomer and naked-eye-astronomy enthusiast, died of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a respiratory ailment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the age of 72.<\/p>\n<p>He was the executive director of the planetarium at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit, but was most well known for his weekly PBS series. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/jack-horkheimer\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"> It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer and he started doing it in 1976<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look below for his final recorded show for this Labor Day Weekend.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9kCZYVOSNw8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9kCZYVOSNw8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/jack-horkheimer\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">geekosystem<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/jackstargazer.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"> http:\/\/jackstargazer.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, a legendary Star Gazer passed. On Friday afternoon Jack Horkheimer, veteran astronomer and naked-eye-astronomy enthusiast, died of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a respiratory ailment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the age of 72. He was the executive director of the planetarium at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit, but was most well known for his weekly PBS series. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,72],"tags":[1089,3068,3070,2675,259,3069],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-who-died","category-tee-vee","tag-geeks-who-rule-the-world","tag-jack-horkheimer","tag-keep-looking-up","tag-r-i-p","tag-sad-now","tag-star-gazer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13082,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}