{"id":1656,"date":"2014-04-01T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2018-11-12T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:37:28","slug":"california-science-center-gyroscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"California Science Center Gyroscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a visitor&#8217;s choice day according to Julia&#8217;s trip schedule during our Spring Break Trip to Los Angeles.\u00a0 It was a fine Tuesday morning and after visiting the magnificent rose garden in the park out front we visited the California Science Center.\u00a0 What a great museum!\u00a0 Lot&#8217;s of school groups present and the museum has lots of interactive displays which keep their attention.\u00a0 The museum is also the home to the retired Space Shuttle Endeavor.\u00a0 A good presentation on space travel and videos of the arrival of the space shuttle, both the fly-overs as well as the surface movement of the shuttle onto the museum grounds.\u00a0 I was even happier when we spotted this big gyroscope mounted outside the ExploraStore.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1658\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1658\" data-attachment-id=\"1658\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1658\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?fit=1440%2C2077\" data-orig-size=\"1440,2077\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;James J Hejl&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396358708&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"California Science Center Gyroscope\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;14gyro &#8211; IMG_2475&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;California Science Center Gyroscope&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?fit=145%2C209\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?fit=494%2C712\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?resize=208%2C300\" alt=\"gyro\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?resize=208%2C300 208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?resize=710%2C1024 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?resize=104%2C150 104w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/14gyro.jpg?w=1440 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Science Center Gyroscope<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a visitor&#8217;s choice day according to Julia&#8217;s trip schedule during our Spring Break Trip to Los Angeles.\u00a0 It was a fine Tuesday morning and after visiting the magnificent rose garden in the park out front we visited the California Science Center.\u00a0 What a great museum!\u00a0 Lot&#8217;s of school \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1656\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; 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