{"id":6024,"date":"2012-06-06T23:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T03:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2012-06-08T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T12:37:38","slug":"june-06-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/june-06-2012\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/120605_Transit-of-Venus.jpg\"><\/a>The Transit of Venus.\u00a0 This was taken using a welders&#8217;s glass over the lens.\u00a0 It was a memorable evening .\u00a0 I finished teaching a bit early to try to catch the event before sunset, at the Blair Road boat ramp.\u00a0\u00a0 On the short drive there, a giant black cloud obscured all but a sliver of the sky &#8211; the sliver at the horizon, where the sun was.\u00a0\u00a0 The sunlight was just dazzling, as though concentrated and amplified in the narrow slit of open sky.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 White aspen fluff was raining down on the river, and the scenery was awash in blinding, golden light.\u00a0 At the exact instant the sun set, a deluge of rain began.\u00a0 It was very dramatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transit of Venus.\u00a0 This was taken using a welders&#8217;s glass over the lens.\u00a0 It was a memorable evening .\u00a0 I finished teaching a bit early to try to catch the event before sunset, at the Blair Road boat ramp.\u00a0\u00a0 On the short drive there, a giant black cloud obscured all but a sliver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[425,951,950],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-river","tag-sun","tag-transit","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianonskis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}