{"id":1674,"date":"2017-08-21T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2017-08-21T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T04:23:43","slug":"1674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse draws near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it, I&#8217;ve got eclipse fever.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been in outer space the past few months (well, no, they&#8217;re probably talking about it there too), you know that today is the cosmic event of the century: the day that Americans can stare into space for two minutes without looking silly. (Well, individual results may vary.)<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s got official eclipse-watching goggles? Not this guy. The line at our local library yesterday started three hours before the place opened. I&#8217;ve got a cereal box with a pinhole and I plan to use it with great aplomb.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I remember any kind of full or partial eclipse was sometime in the mid &#8217;90s when I was in middle school. I remember that they kept us inside during lunchtime, because they feared slack-jawed kids staring up at the sun and burning out their retinas or some such thing. (Never cared about the sun when it was on full display.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ticked off about that one for over 20 years. Time to make up for it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it, I&#8217;ve got eclipse fever. Unless you&#8217;ve been in outer space the past few months (well, no, they&#8217;re probably talking about it there too), you know that today is the cosmic event of the century: the day that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}