{"id":262,"date":"2017-08-24T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.25.106.130\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-09-19T20:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:47:05","slug":"eclipse-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/eclipse-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My first total eclipse.\u00a0 The moon relentlessly sweeping across the\u00a0 dazzling surface and eating sunspots, heading towards a destiny that you know will come but can’t quite believe.\u00a0 A hot August day cooling as the sun turns into a thin bright crescent. Baily’s beads and the diamond ring just before totality.\u00a0 Suddenly the world turns strange as if you are in a Gothic movie.\u00a0 The comforting brightness in the sky you’ve lived with all your life has become a photographic negative. The sky at midday is dark enough to see stars and planets.\u00a0 Prominences\u00a0 (9 o’clock and 11 o’clock upper left) and the spectacular corona burst into view.\u00a0 There is sunset color on the horizon for 360 degrees around you.\u00a0 Cheers and tears, everyone seems to have an emotional response.\u00a0 Words cannot do it justice.\u00a0 Pictures cannot do it justice.\u00a0 There is no way to convey what the experience is like, standing out under the open sky, with that incredible event happening overhead.\u00a0 Don’t miss the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first total eclipse.\u00a0 The moon relentlessly sweeping across the\u00a0 dazzling surface and eating sunspots, heading towards a destiny that you know will come but can’t quite believe.\u00a0 A hot August day cooling as the sun turns into a thin bright crescent. Baily’s beads and the diamond ring just before totality.\u00a0 Suddenly the world turns … Continue reading “Eclipse 2017”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier","tag-eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}