{"id":16395,"date":"2017-08-21T20:55:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16395"},"modified":"2017-08-21T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:18:09","slug":"solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16395","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar eclipse day today. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of it. :) We didn&#8217;t drive down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericaneclipse.com\/best-places-to-view\/\">&#8220;the path&#8221;<\/a> but we did make it over to a friend&#8217;s house to share the experience. I wasn&#8217;t very prepared for this event, but we made it to a friend&#8217;s impromptu party (sparked by my FB post asking if anyone was doing anything fun!) and she had a telescope set up. People brought glasses, and card board boxes, and papers with holes poked through. All the viewing options! It was perfect. I brought food and seltzer. :)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1475630612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through the telescope. So cool!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-2012178839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorky looking, but everyone was doing it.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1070680637.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The solar? eclipse, as viewed through a cardboard box. &#x1f601;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-744106867.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lex checking out the sun! (don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s a special filter on there!)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1269641180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through the telescope at the peak coverage in our area. Those two dark blips are sunspots! So cool!<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-2096412561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"828\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinpoint viewing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I definitely think the glasses and telescope are the best viewing devices.  It&#8217;s way more satisfying to look up, not down at paper, to view the sun.  I&#8217;ll have to pick up a pair of glasses before the next total solar eclipse to pass by these parts, in April of 2024.  We can even get to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/missing-2017s-total-solar-eclipse-start-planning-for-the-next-one-in-2024\/70002507\">&#8220;path of totality&#8221; for that one!<\/a>  (This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/list.html\">kind of a cool site<\/a> too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar eclipse day today. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of it. :) We didn&#8217;t drive down to &#8220;the path&#8221; but we did make it over to a friend&#8217;s house to share the experience. I wasn&#8217;t very prepared for this event, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=16395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16399,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions\/16399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}