{"id":1615,"date":"2004-06-08T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2004-06-08T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T18:16:50","slug":"1615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/1615\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/venus-transit.jpg\" alt=\"Venus Transit\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saao.ac.za\/pr\/tov.html\" rel=\"external\">live transit of Venus<\/a> from the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town.<\/strong> Image refreshes every 60 seconds.<br \/><em>Thanks to Graham for the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cooltech.iafrica.com\/space\/327825.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>iafrica.com &#8211; Venus Transit ends<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <em>(photos)<\/em><br \/>&#8220;Astronomers felt the tingle of history down their spine on Tuesday as Venus kissed the face of the Sun for the first time in more than a century but many cursed the weather gods for spoiling their day.<\/p>\n<p>Among the public, some mistakenly expected the splendour of a solar eclipse and were disappointed when the ballyhooed Venus transit proved to be much less spectacular. European skywatchers were awed as they watched the speck of the Solar System&#8217;s second planet inch its way across the Sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the live transit of Venus from the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town. Image refreshes every 60 seconds.Thanks to Graham for the link. iafrica.com &#8211; Venus Transit ends &#8211; (photos)&#8220;Astronomers felt the tingle of history down their spine on Tuesday as Venus kissed the face of the Sun for the first time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}