{"id":9120,"date":"2017-08-21T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2017-08-22T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T05:33:48","slug":"eclipse-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/eclipse-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may be aware, there&#8217;s a solar eclipse across the country today. Iowa is only going to get a partial experience of it, though. A little sliver of the very southwest corner is supposed to be in the &#8220;path of totality&#8221;, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article166394247.html\">if the map overestimates the shadow<\/a> by half a mile on either side, that won&#8217;t happen. Fremont County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/content\/news\/Southwest-Iowa-will-see-totality-during-the-eclipse-440814413.html\">has made preparations<\/a>, although Waubonsie State Park itself isn&#8217;t in the path.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic irony being what it is, most of Iowa will be under overcast if not rainy skies, because that&#8217;s what happens in an abnormally dry month that absolutely needed one sunny day. (OK, three sunny days, since my two at the state fair also got dripped on.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Totally a bust in most of the state. The <em>Register<\/em>, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/life\/2017\/08\/21\/hamburg-iowa-screams-delight-clouds-part-totality-eclipsed-sun\/587400001\/\">went with those Fremont County eclipse-seekers<\/a> and school kids to the VERY southwest corner of the state to watch the 30 seconds of totality on the fringe.<\/p>\n<p>(Totality on the Fringe would be a good name for a rock band.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may be aware, there&#8217;s a solar eclipse across the country today. Iowa is only going to get a partial experience of it, though. A little sliver of the very southwest corner is supposed to be in the &#8220;path &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/eclipse-day\/\">Continue reading <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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}