{"id":1072,"date":"2012-06-01T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:36:06","slug":"transit-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Transit of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A transit of Venus took place in the early hours of Wednesday 6th June (CET)), beginning at 00.03.53 and ending at 06.55.24. There will not be another transit in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-06-at-7.01.14-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-06-06 at 7.01.14 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-06-at-7.01.14-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-06-at-7.01.14-AM.png 470w, https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-06-at-7.01.14-AM-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>The photograph above was taken in Minneapolis (hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Venus_transit_2012_Minneapolis_TLR1.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>More details, including viewing techniques and locations, are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/transitofvenus.nl\/wp\/\">Transit of Venus Project<\/a>, one of the activities of the excellent organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomerswithoutborders.org\/\">Astronomers Without Borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transit of Venus took place in the early hours of Wednesday 6th June (CET)), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,80],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosities","category-events","tag-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}