{"id":177,"date":"2008-08-01T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/08\/01\/kids_dont_try_this_at_home\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:33:03","slug":"kids_dont_try_this_at_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/08\/01\/kids_dont_try_this_at_home\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids, don&#8217;t try this at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/partial_eclipse.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/partial_eclipse.html','popup','width=312,height=268,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/partial_eclipse-thumb-200x171.jpg\" alt=\"partial_eclipse.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" width=\"200\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/span>So, there I am, sitting on the sofa catching up on a few emails, when Shirls calls and says &#8220;can you see the sun?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It turns out this isn&#8217;t a trick question, and minutes later I&#8217;m dashing around the house trying to find something I can look through to look at our latest partial eclipse.&nbsp; It turns out that my viewing glasses from the last total eclipse have disappeared into piles of stuff so deep that it&#8217;ll take me until the next millennium to find them, so I end up improvising with several layers of film negatives (kids, don&#8217;t try this at home!).<\/p>\n<p>I even managed to get a (very amateur) shot with the camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;perhaps I should be better prepared next time&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there I am, sitting on the sofa catching up on a few emails, when Shirls calls and says &#8220;can you see the sun?&#8221; It turns out this isn&#8217;t a trick question, and minutes later I&#8217;m dashing around the house trying to find something I can look through to look at our latest partial eclipse.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/08\/01\/kids_dont_try_this_at_home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kids, don&#8217;t try this at home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}