{"id":4435,"date":"2020-08-10T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2020-08-10T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:19:37","slug":"patience-and-the-perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"PATIENCE AND THE PERSEIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to beat laying on the lawn on a warm summer night looking for shooting stars.\u00a0\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what i was doing last night, a little bit after midnight.\u00a0\u00a0 I was continuing a long family tradition of watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/perseids-peak-august-11-12-get-ready-for-the-show\/\">Perseid meteor<\/a> showers.<\/p>\n<p>The air was warm and still. Crickets were chirping nearby. And the stars were out. I lay back in shorts and a t shirt, barefoot and felt like a kid on summer vacation looking at the stars.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t see any shooting stars after twenty minutes and went to bed.\u00a0\u00a0 This wasn&#8217;t all that surprising considering the peak of the meteor shower was still days away. And the clouds creeping in and light pollution in suburban Boston didn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>But it was still a wonderful summertime experience to savor in the moment. I will keep my vigil up the next few days to see if I can view et a good burst of meteor activity.\u00a0 The weather report says there might be rain so who know if I will see any.<\/p>\n<p>I will have to keep trying. Good thing I have the week off!<\/p>\n<p>It takes patience to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/perseids-peak-august-11-12-get-ready-for-the-show\/\">Perseids!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to beat laying on the lawn on a warm summer night looking for shooting stars.\u00a0\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what i was doing last night, a little bit after midnight.\u00a0\u00a0 I was continuing a long family tradition of watching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4435\">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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}