{"id":355572,"date":"2017-08-08T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=31ecb50c8eb7876d289b8c8cc86124f7"},"modified":"2017-08-08T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:00:29","slug":"go-see-it-eclipse-chasers-urge-your-first-time-is-always-special-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=355572","title":{"rendered":"Go See It, Eclipse Chasers Urge. &#8216;Your First Time Is Always Special&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/08\/02\/tse2008-3034npr_wide-903b3398aa64ea7c19ad4973f01a61af720136bd.jpg?s=600' alt='Retired astrophysicist Fred Espenak (right) and his wife Patricia photographed a total solar eclipse from Jinta, China on Aug. 1, 2008. He's witnessed 27 such events, and plans to be in Casper, Wyo., on August 21 \u2014 depending on the forecast.'\/><\/p>\n<p>A small number of passionate &#8220;shadow-lovers&#8221; roam the world to be at exactly the right place when the moon blots out the sun. One man has seen 33 \u2014 and calls each &#8220;one of the top events of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Courtesy of Fred Espenak)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=539553696' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small number of passionate &#8220;shadow-lovers&#8221; roam the world to be at exactly the right place when the moon blots out the sun. One man has seen 33 &mdash; and calls each &#8220;one of the top events of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355572","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355574,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355572\/revisions\/355574"}],"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=355572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}