{"id":6958,"date":"2016-05-13T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T01:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/the-great-american-eclipse\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T18:59:48","slug":"the-great-american-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/the-great-american-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"The All American Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/eclipse-poster.jpg' title='The Great American Eclipse'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/eclipse-poster.jpg' alt='The Great American Eclipse' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>Although the event is over fifteen months in the future, we ordered our special <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/shades.jpg' title='eclipse shades'>eclipse shades<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphony.com\/eclipse-glasses\/\">Rainbow Symphony<\/a> last week. This week, they showed up with the poster depicted at the right as a bonus. We ordered twenty-five pair of shades and plan on handing them out to family and friends as the event approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, we made our reservations for an RV park near the centerline of the path of totality in Casper, WY. I&#8217;m sure the campgrounds are going to fill up very quickly as this is certain to be the most important and popular celestial event in our lifetimes. As spectacular as the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/20\/the-annular-eclipse-of-may-20-2012\/\">Annular Eclipse<\/a> was that we witnessed four years ago in Page, AZ, this one is certain to be more impressive, weather permitting. <\/p>\n<p>The good thing about this eclipse is that nobody in the entire lower forty-eight has to travel more than a few to several hundred miles to get to the band of totality. Our trip, as currently planned, takes us over a 1,035 mile route with some extra miles due to sight seeing side trips along the scenic route through Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: All American Eclipse Poster; click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the event is over fifteen months in the future, we ordered our special eclipse shades from Rainbow Symphony last week. This week, they showed up&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}