{"id":199,"date":"2009-08-12T17:43:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2009\/08\/12\/enjoying_the_perseid_meteor_sh\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:43:03","slug":"enjoying_the_perseid_meteor_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2009\/08\/12\/enjoying_the_perseid_meteor_sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the Perseid meteor shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"stars.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/stars.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"200\" height=\"116\" \/><\/span>Got up a little late last night.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t usually say that when I get up at 4am, but do you know it starts getting light at 4:30 at the moment?&nbsp; Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this was the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8197303.stm\">annual Perseid meteor shower<\/a>.&nbsp; Although the sky was getting too light for any decent photography, I did see a couple of very bright meteors and many lesser ones.&nbsp; It was quite fun!&nbsp; I&#8217;d try the photography again tonight, but it doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;re going to get cloudless skies.&nbsp; It&#8217;ll just have to have been one of those enjoyable moments in life you can&#8217;t capture&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got up a little late last night.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t usually say that when I get up at 4am, but do you know it starts getting light at 4:30 at the moment?&nbsp; Crazy. The reason for this was the annual Perseid meteor shower.&nbsp; Although the sky was getting too light for any decent photography, I did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2009\/08\/12\/enjoying_the_perseid_meteor_sh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoying the Perseid meteor shower<\/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":[53,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}