{"id":11404,"date":"2017-08-27T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2017-08-28T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:01:40","slug":"non-totality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2017\/08\/27\/non-totality\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Totality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since obviously eclipse glasses are for wimps (and also I didn&#8217;t buy any before the prices exploded), I took a zoom lens into the backyard and attempted to focus as much sunlight on my retinas as possible; my vision should return in time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024\">next eclipse in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11406\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0993-culver-city-solar-eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"The Eclipse in the Clouds\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0993-culver-city-solar-eclipse.jpg 700w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0993-culver-city-solar-eclipse-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The marine layer started burning off just as the eclipse was getting started, and luckily the clouds acted as enough of a filter that I was only mostly blind after shooting a few photos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11407\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1005-culver-city-solar-eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Eclipse\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1005-culver-city-solar-eclipse.jpg 700w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1005-culver-city-solar-eclipse-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As the clouds burned off and the sun became too bright to look at through the viewfinder I was reduced to pointing the camera in the general area of the bright thing in the sky and hoping to get something in frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since obviously eclipse glasses are for wimps (and also I didn&#8217;t buy any before the prices exploded), I took a zoom lens into the backyard and attempted to focus as much sunlight on my retinas as possible; my vision should return in time for the next eclipse in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}