{"id":9268,"date":"2014-10-22T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:12:18","slug":"comets-eclipses-and-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9268","title":{"rendered":"Comets, eclipses, and wind&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;let&#8217;s start with the last one and go from there&#8230;I am always amazed with how the wind acts when I am out on the bike&#8230;and today was no exception&#8230;it seemed like&#8230;no it was&#8230;the wind was coming from every direction today&#8230;usually, when you head out to the East and you have a brisk wind in your face, you can look forward to having it end when you go north, or south, or west&#8230;but today, it was a struggle every direction&#8230;still can&#8217;t figure out how that works but it sure takes a lot out of you&#8230;as you probably know&#8230;a comet passed pretty close to Mars on Sunday and I really expected to see some cool photos since the Hubble ones from a week ago were quite neat&#8230;.but, following it live Sunday, the pictures were grainy at best&#8230;still kind of cool to see the ones from the surface taken by one of the rovers but I&#8217;d hoped for more&#8230;.not sure if you saw the lunar eclipse a couple of weeks ago but it was pretty neat&#8230;had to get up early to see it but seeing the moon with a huge bite out of it always makes me smile&#8230;and now, we have a half solar eclipse for thurs aft around 5:30 here that could be fun&#8230;.that&#8217;s tomorrow for the date challenged&#8230;I am looking forward to that one, too, heck&#8230;I look forward to anything like that&#8230;still a science and space geek after all these years and I look forward to the gloom that comes with the eclipse&#8230;kind of near sunset but I&#8217;ll be looking anyway&#8230;.oh, and I added a new category that I will put all the science stuff in as I write about sciency stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;let&#8217;s start with the last one and go from there&#8230;I am always amazed with how the wind acts when I am out on the bike&#8230;and today was no exception&#8230;it seemed like&#8230;no it was&#8230;the wind was coming from every direction today&#8230;usually, when you head out to the East and you have a brisk wind in your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comets, eclipses, and wind&#8230;.<\/span> <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":[1114],"tags":[1116,1115],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-solar-eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}