{"id":95233,"date":"2019-08-24T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet-or-is-it"},"modified":"2019-08-24T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T19:22:28","slug":"why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet-or-is-it","title":{"rendered":"Why Pluto is no longer a planet (or is it?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet-or-is-it3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pluto was long considered our solar system\u2019s ninth planet. Although small, it orbits the sun and has the spherical shape required to be considered a planet.<\/p>\n<p>But today marks 13 years since Pluto received a harsh drop in status \u2014 officially dubbed Pluto Demotion Day.<\/p>\n<p>Pluto was relegated in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created a new definition for planets and decided Pluto did not fit the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluto was long considered our solar system\u2019s ninth planet. Although small, it orbits the sun and has the spherical shape required to be considered a planet. But today marks 13 years since Pluto received a harsh drop in status \u2014 officially dubbed Pluto Demotion Day. Pluto was relegated in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}