{"id":972,"date":"2015-08-12T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T02:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=972"},"modified":"2015-08-12T22:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T02:12:39","slug":"perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-973\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150812_215015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-973\" src=\"\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150812_215015-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"night time photo without a flash\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150812_215015-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150812_215015-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_20150812_215015.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selfie of us stargazing on a blanket in the backyard. I didn&#8217;t use a flash and it was pretty dark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We all (Mom, Alpha, Beta, and I) camped out in the back yard to look for shooting stars &#8212; tonight is the peak of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower\" target=\"_blank\">Perseids<\/a> meteor shower.\u00a0 We saw a couple of bright streaks, a bunch of dim streaks, and a handful of satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The grrlz got curious about the stars as we lay on the blanket, and we talked about the Big Bang, extra dimensions, time travel, landing on the sun, and extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all (Mom, Alpha, Beta, and I) camped out in the back yard to look for shooting stars &#8212; tonight is the peak of the annual Perseids meteor shower.\u00a0 We saw a couple of bright streaks, a bunch of dim streaks, and a handful of satellites. The grrlz got curious about the stars as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perseids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[79,169],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-kids","tag-stargazing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o3FW-perseids","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}