{"id":147,"date":"2006-03-29T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=147"},"modified":"2006-03-29T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T17:53:50","slug":"solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t parts of Turkey or Libya, but the eclipse was still fantastic here. I borrowed “viewers” from random strangers and saw just a sliver of sun, with the rest being covered by the moon. Some people down near the sea had those special paper glasses, but I looked through folded pieces of that colored plastic that you tape over stage lights. One smiling, middle-aged guy had wrapped pieces of that plastic around the lenses on his glasses, and he proudly let me try them. Hopefully, I haven’t fried my retinas. Other people were looking through film negatives.<\/p>\n

I didn’t manage to take a good picture using the plastic shield, but this picture, where you can see the moon (a new moon today, too) to the right, is kind of cool.<\/p>\n

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This<\/a> is sort of how it looked, but less grainy.<\/p>\n

I guess that I had thought that it would get noticeably darker out with most of the sun covered, but it didn’t seem to make much difference. Generally, I would say that people here didn’t seem to care too much about it, but it was fun to see the people who did. I also heard that a lot of schools closed because of the danger (impending blindness!). I would think that school would be among the best places for kids to be, so that they could see it in an educational and supervised setting, but maybe I’m missing something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t parts of Turkey or Libya, but the eclipse was still fantastic here. I borrowed “viewers” from random strangers and saw just a sliver of sun, with the rest being covered by the moon. Some people down near the sea had those special paper glasses, but I looked through folded pieces of that colored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}