{"id":413,"date":"2010-08-12T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/12\/wednesday-night-perseids\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T08:30:00","slug":"wednesday-night-perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/12\/wednesday-night-perseids\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_538142486\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    Diane Gabe and I just cam in from watching some of the Persied meteor shower.. If you&#8217;re reading this on 8\/12.. run outside and look towards the northeast. If your&#8217;e lucky you&#8217;ll see a bright streak everyminute or so as a grain of sand sized spec from the tail of comment Swift- Tuttle hits the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere at more than 70 km\/sec.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I suspect it&#8217;s not so bad to go out in such a blaze of glory&#8230;<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 Standing out there tonight with my family I was able to connect with the many summer nights just like this I&#8217;ve done this same thing. Stared up\u00a0 from the wet cool grass.. squinting into the black sky.. Not daring to look away for fear I&#8217;d miss the biggest one. I watched with\u00a0 my kids when they were young.. with diane before kids.. with friends in college.. with my folks.. as a kid myself..\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice that no matter how much things change here on earth.. some things are constant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nite all.. nite sam.. catch one for us..<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 \n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Gabe and I just cam in from watching some of the Persied meteor shower.. If you&#8217;re reading this on 8\/12.. run outside and look towards the northeast. If your&#8217;e lucky you&#8217;ll see a bright streak everyminute or so as a grain of sand sized spec from the tail of comment Swift- Tuttle hits the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/12\/wednesday-night-perseids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; Perseids<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}