{"id":1634,"date":"2017-08-21T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2018-07-01T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T03:14:08","slug":"eclipse-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2017\/08\/21\/eclipse-2017","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So like everyone else in the country, I spent a good part of my afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/2017-solar-eclipse-highlights\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"post\" title=\"NASA Eclipse 2017\">looking at the sky<\/a>. The DC area is north of the path of totality, so we didn&#8217;t get the full coverage and had to settle for a maximum of 80% moon blockage scheduled at 2:40pm. I procured a proper viewer and started to watch.<\/p>\n<p>1:17pm: Moon begins to cross the sun. (Right on time!)<\/p>\n<p>1:45pm: Sun resembles cookie with bite taken out of it.<\/p>\n<p>2:15pm: Crescent sun!<\/p>\n<p>2:35pm: Skinnier crescent sun, almost time for peak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2:38pm: Almost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2:39pm: Oh crap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2017\/eclipsecloud.jpg\" title=\"Neat looking wavy sunbeams, though!\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Big Clouds: &#8220;HEY, YOU GUYS! Can we join the party?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/deskflip.jpg\" title=\"Go away, clouds, nobody likes you.\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/irked.gif\" title=\"Damn cloud.\"\/><\/p>\n<p><i>This has been <b>Day 90<\/b> of the <b>100 Days of Summer, Round 17<\/b>.<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2017\/crescentsun.jpg\" title=\"Summertime!\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So like everyone else in the country, I spent a good part of my afternoon looking at the sky. The DC area is north of the path of totality, so we didn&#8217;t get the full coverage and had to settle for a maximum of 80% moon blockage scheduled at 2:40pm. I procured a proper viewer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2017\/08\/21\/eclipse-2017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eclipse 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-100-days-of-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}