{"id":8832,"date":"2017-08-22T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2017-08-22T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:17:07","slug":"total-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/08\/22\/total-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4410\/36328886310_1b17b5175c_n.jpg?resize=320%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Total Eclipse over Greenville, SC\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total Eclipse over Greenville, SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A friend invited others to her parent&#8217;s house inside the totality. It was fantastic placement very near the center of totality, so we got to see it for a couple minutes rather than a few seconds just inside totality. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneezypb\/albums\/72157687938561185\">Photo album<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I experienced the annular eclipses in 1984 and 1994. I was a kid at the time, so my recollection is fuzzy. We also were not in the path, so it got dimmer but not&#8230; this.<\/p>\n<p>The sky was\u00c2\u00a0<strong>BLACK<\/strong>. Night\u00c2\u00a0<strong>BLACK.<\/strong> Eerily unnerving\u00c2\u00a0<strong>BLACK.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0I felt like a quark\u00c2\u00a0inside a nearly infinite universe. And then the light returned.<\/p>\n<p>It hands down is the most spectacular moment I have ever experienced. I understand how peoples found this event so terrifying. I understand the physics and have a hard time believing it. I now get why people become eclipse chasers. I could become a junkie for wanting to experience\u00c2\u00a0this again and again.<\/p>\n<p>It would be amazing to see the next one in the USA\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024\">April 8, 2024<\/a>. It goes over Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, and Maine.<\/p>\n<p>We expected traffic getting there and returning home to be horrendous with the interstates, highways, and roads swamped with people. From what I heard, traffic on I-85 was really bad in places, since that was the direct route from Atlanta to Greenville. And it was pretty bad up in the mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A friend invited others to her parent&#8217;s house inside the totality. It was fantastic placement very near the center of totality, so we got to see it for a couple minutes rather than a few seconds just inside totality. [Photo album] I experienced the annular eclipses in 1984 and 1994. I was a kid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1210],"tags":[1328,648,3306],"class_list":["post-8832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-chem","tag-eclipse","tag-physics","tag-total-eclipse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2is","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}