{"id":1028,"date":"2006-03-29T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2006-03-29T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T01:03:01","slug":"solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">P<\/span>ortions <a id=\"p1027\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1027\" title=\"A view from Earth and a view from Space\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/e_clipse.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"A view from Earth and a view from Space\" \/><\/a>of Africa, Europe and Asia enjoyed a (partial\/whole) solar eclipse today, and Space.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewatch\/060329_solar_eclipse.html\">has the pictures<\/a>. From that same page, a spectacular picture what a solar eclipse looks like from the great void (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/multimedia\/ISS_eclipse_03292006.html\">original pictures over at NASA<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>I find it fascinating to know that thanks to space exploration we&#8217;re able to see, understand and explain what exactly a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse\">solar eclipse<\/a> is. Over two thousand years ago (which is not long ago, if you put that on an evolutionary timescale), people asserted divine powers to these <em>astronomical<\/em> events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portions of Africa, Europe and Asia enjoyed a (partial\/whole) solar eclipse today, and Space.com has the pictures. From that same page, a spectacular picture what a solar eclipse looks like from the great void (original pictures over at NASA). I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}