{"id":7853,"date":"2024-04-08T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2024-04-08T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:06:22","slug":"happy-eclipse-day-oh-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"Happy Eclipse Day!  Oh, wait&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2024\/04\/North-Dakota-clouds.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2024\/04\/North-Dakota-clouds.png 571w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2024\/04\/North-Dakota-clouds-357x500.png 357w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2024\/04\/North-Dakota-clouds-107x150.png 107w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2024\/04\/North-Dakota-clouds-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I made this meme a long time ago out of frustration during an potential Northern Lights photography opportunity.  It still applies!  I&#8217;m getting plenty of mileage out of this one simple meme, proving that it was spot-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had originally planned to take my family to the National Museum of the Air Force for this event, since it&#8217;ll pass right overhead, giving us a two-fer.  I had to cancel those plans due to Bidenomics, but we did visit the Strategic Air Command museum this weekend instead.  The weather at Wright-Patterson was a roll of the dice anyway, and everywhere along the path of totality is going to be packed with people, so we really aren&#8217;t too bummed about missing out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am old enough to have caught the total solar eclipse in 1979, when I was a young lad growing up in western Montana.  We didn&#8217;t do anything special with protective gogs or anything like that, but we watched it get dark.  Pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s always 2044!  I told my kids they may have to dig me out of the nursing home or the dirt for us to catch the next one, but I&#8217;m going to do my best to be able to ride motorcycle there.  Or maybe even longboard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made this meme a long time ago out of frustration during an potential Northern Lights photography opportunity. It still applies! I&#8217;m getting plenty of mileage out of this one simple meme, proving that it was spot-on. I had originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=7853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-skies-and-stars","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","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=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}