{"id":190,"date":"2022-02-09T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2022-02-16T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:13:17","slug":"2006-g-bruce-blair-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/09\/2006-g-bruce-blair-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 G. Bruce Blair Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"john-christopher-chris-butler\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">John Christopher &#8220;Chris&#8221; Butler<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2006-Chris-Butler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\" width=\"289\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2006-Chris-Butler.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2006-Chris-Butler-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2006-Chris-Butler-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>John Christopher \u201cChris\u201d Butler is an internationally renowned artist and public speaker whose work focuses on astronomy, nature, and maritime subjects. His illustrations are done with a passionate attention to accuracy and fine detail, and have appeared in thousands of publications worldwide. Chris&#8217;s sensitive integration of nature and the universe in his paintings portrays the harmony of the universe through unique perspectives that stimulate the imagination very effectively.<br>A captivating speaker, Chris is widely in demand for his insightful and entertaining lectures on astronomical and other topics, illustrated with his own art. Chris&#8217;s unique art and presentation style reflects his diverse experience; he currently serves as a senior art director for planetarium and exhibit programs for the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. He has been the director of a children&#8217;s science museum, a tour guide on the Queen Mary, a technical illustrator, a representative for a telescope manufacturer, an amateur astronomer, and a financial analyst on the space shuttle program.<br>Chris also has the distinction of having an asteroid named in his honor &#8211; 13543 Butler. He resides with his family in Buena Park, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Christopher &#8220;Chris&#8221; Butler John Christopher \u201cChris\u201d Butler is an internationally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}