{"id":304901,"date":"2017-04-21T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3402cf3d4b4bf7297492ecd4495fe6b4"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T20:34:00","slug":"lights-off-blankets-out-lyrid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=304901","title":{"rendered":"Lights Off, Blankets Out: Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/04\/21\/gettyimages-470727616_wide-70a9803914327dd0a1eee6dfd77b70a2002c5b91.jpg?s=600' alt='Conditions are expected to be ideal for viewing the Lyrid meteor shower on Friday night and Saturday morning.This long-exposure photograph taken on April 23, 2015, shows the Lyrid meteors passing near the Milky Way in the clear night sky near Yangon, Myanmar.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Conditions on Friday night and before dawn on Saturday should be ideal for spotting the streaks of space debris \u2014 leftover particles from a comet that was last seen in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Ye Aung Thu\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=525095927' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions on Friday night and before dawn on Saturday should be ideal for spotting the streaks of space debris &mdash; leftover particles from a comet that was last seen in 1861.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305151,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304901\/revisions\/305151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}