{"id":1195,"date":"2008-02-20T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T02:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2008-02-23T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:37:14","slug":"eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol remembered that we were going to be able to see a total eclipse of the moon tonight. The almanac said the eclipse would begin at 8:43; at nine o&#8217;clock I remembered to look out our front window. It&#8217;s a little hazy here, but I could see the moon pretty clearly: already, the circle of the earth&#8217;s shadow has covered a significant portion of the bright disc of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a child, I seem to remember a number of winter nights when my mother would stay up late to watch partial or total lunar eclipses; or would set her alarm clock so she could awaken in the middle of the night to see them. I only remember seeing one or two, if they happened early in the evening; I was never interested enough in astronomical events to miss sleep for one. I don&#8217;t remember the other members of our family being all that interested in eclipses, either. But in memory, my mother never missed a lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/moon.jpg' title='Beginning of lunar eclipse'><img src='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/moon.jpg' alt='Beginning of lunar eclipse' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Lunar eclipse as of 9:00 EST, New Bedford, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol remembered that we were going to be able to see a total eclipse of the moon tonight. The almanac said the eclipse would begin at 8:43; at nine o&#8217;clock I remembered to look out our front window. It&#8217;s a little hazy here, but I could see the moon pretty clearly: already, the circle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}