{"id":1625,"date":"2008-07-08T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2013-06-08T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T22:35:53","slug":"this-only-happens-twice-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"This only happens twice a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/capitol_silhouette_34685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>My friend Pat gave me the heads up this week: for one night only, when viewed from his front porch, the silhouette of the capitol building appears centered on the sun. That night was tonight. Even though I had to stretch the limits of my longest telephoto lens from his house southeast of town, I think things turned out pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>This also happens a little bit before June 21st, the longest day of the year. I wasn&#8217;t able to catch it at that time. Last year the weather conspired against me and I wasn&#8217;t able to catch either occurrence, so tonight was a pretty good treat.<\/p>\n<p>I actually tried last night, but the sun was still a little above the horizon when it crossed the capitol building. It looked like a lollipop of sorts. I may still try to get another shot tomorrow night, with only a portion of the sun behind the capitol building. I&#8217;ll have to do it one minute earlier than I did tonight, however; we lose a minute of daylight every day now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Pat gave me the heads up this week: for one night only, when viewed from his front porch, the silhouette of the capitol building appears centered on the sun. That night was tonight. Even though I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}