{"id":57745,"date":"2012-06-04T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=57745"},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:46:33","slug":"the-transit-of-venus-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-transit-of-venus-march\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transit of Venus March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"633\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-rNQFUqt49Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay, a march isn&#8217;t really the type of music I&#8217;d associate with Venus (seems more Martian, to me), but I couldn&#8217;t resist posting this.  Sousa wrote the march in 1882-3 (there was a Venus transit in 1882), but he did not write it specifically to commemorate that event itself. Rather, the Smithsonian Instituiton in Washington, D.C. asked Sousa to write it for a planned unveiling of a statue in honor of American physicist Prof. Joseph Henry who had died on May 13, 1878. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunearthday.nasa.gov\/2012\/transit\/sousa.php\">a page at NASA.com<\/a>, &#8220;The music was to be played while dignitaries solomnly walked from the museum to a special receiving stand in front of the Smithsonian,&#8221; in 1883.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes there are other examples of music with likely ties to the transit of Venus in the Library of Congress, since they appeared around the time of the 1874 and 1882 transits. These include: &#8220;The Transit Polka&#8221; and the &#8220;The Rapid Transit.&#8221; Also, dated near the June 6, 1769 transit of Venus, the British Public Library has a copy of an old song titled, &#8220;Come ye lads and lasses with speed. The Transit of Venus,&#8221; published in London; author and exact circumstances unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, a march isn&#8217;t really the type of music I&#8217;d associate with Venus (seems more Martian, to me), but I couldn&#8217;t resist posting this. Sousa wrote the march in 1882-3 (there was a Venus transit in 1882), but he did not write it specifically to commemorate that event itself. Rather, the Smithsonian Instituiton in Washington, &#8230; <a title=\"The Transit of Venus March\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-transit-of-venus-march\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Transit of Venus March\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}