{"id":684,"date":"2013-08-14T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:23:31","slug":"perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/perseids\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseid meteor shower peaked on our last night in the Sierra.  We slept at over 10,000 feet elevation that night and the skies were clear.  The Milky Way stretched from mountain-blocked horizon to mountain-blocked horizon, and there were as many stars visible in the sky as I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>I got up a few times during the night to watch the sky, but as usual I was unimpressed with the meteor shower show.<\/p>\n<p>When one hears &#8220;Meteor Shower&#8221;, one might expect something like a water shower where the sky is filled with many meteors every second.  Alas, a &#8220;good&#8221; showing for a meteor shower is an average of around one per minute, and that&#8217;s about what I saw when I got up.  Interesting for a few minutes, but as the near-freezing temperatures penetrated my light jacket I only stayed out for about 5 minutes and saw about 5 shooting stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseid meteor shower peaked on our last night in the Sierra. We slept at over 10,000 feet elevation that night and the skies were clear. The Milky Way stretched from mountain-blocked horizon to mountain-blocked horizon, and there were as many stars visible in the sky as I have ever seen. I got up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}