{"id":5155,"date":"2026-08-15T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T21:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:57:27","slug":"hot-and-cloudy-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"Hot and Cloudy August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I have been thwarted in my pursuit of the Perseid meteor shower.\u00a0 It is not for lack of trying. For the past week or so, I have been waking up and sticking my head out side to determine if I can observe the annual Perseid meteor shower. Unfortunately, and true to form, each time stuck my head out it was cloudy.<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising, at least in coastal New England,it starts getting cloudy at night in August as the first hints of Fall start coming our way. Maybe next year I will get inland and observe. Perhaps Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I stick my head out and go back to bed!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright Christopher Donahue 2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I have been thwarted in my pursuit of the Perseid meteor shower.\u00a0 It is not for lack of trying. For the past week or so, I have been waking up and sticking my head out side to determine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5155\">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-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}