{"id":119,"date":"2014-06-09T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=119"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:11:32","slug":"pat-terhune-inverso","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/staff\/pat-terhune-inverso\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Terhune-Inverso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I became interested in astronomy as a first-year student at Bellevue College when I took an astronomy class.\u00a0 I found the planetarium mesmerizing and the subject matter stimulating. \u00a0To pursue my new fascination in astronomy I joined a local astronomy club and worked in the BC planetarium as a volunteer, running the star projector and helping produce public shows.\u00a0 Since then, I have worked at the Pacific Science Center planetarium and owned my own traveling planetarium business.\u00a0 I have an Earth &amp; Space Science degree from the UW.\u00a0 I started teaching astronomy at Bellevue College in 2008.\u00a0 I feel very lucky to be teaching in this planetarium, where it all started for me.\u00a0 I hope to instill the same fascination and wonder for my students that I had when I first took astronomy many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":327,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-119","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/119\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}