{"id":172,"date":"2012-04-22T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beemandave.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-04-22T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:10:38","slug":"a-frustrating-astronomical-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/a-frustrating-astronomical-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A frustrating Astronomical Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and Salutations;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hum&#8230;And folks say that Nature is a mindless force, with no sense of humor! &nbsp;&nbsp;The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaked last night, but, I had no chance to see even a hint of one, in spite of the new moon. &nbsp; Why? &nbsp; Well, of course, the clouds moved in and blanketed the area pretty much all of yesterday and today. &nbsp; No useful rains to speak of, but, enough cloud cover to blank out any chance of seeing the meteors. &nbsp;Some folks, as recounted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/connect\/chat\/lyrids2012_chat.html\">Here<\/a>, had some luck, and time will tell if the plans to capture shower images from the ground and from the ISS to provide 3d images worked out.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Still&#8230;it is amazing how often I have been clouded out when trying to observe events like this.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Pleasant dreams<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bee Man Dave<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and Salutations; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hum&#8230;And folks say that Nature is a mindless force, with no sense of&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/a-frustrating-astronomical-moment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[42,52,215],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-bad-timing","tag-meteor-showers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}