{"id":358314,"date":"2017-08-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ba31d7cc21c8ce6b0868960a107fef76"},"modified":"2017-08-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:00:00","slug":"why-future-earthlings-wont-see-total-solar-eclipses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=358314","title":{"rendered":"Why Future Earthlings Won&#8217;t See Total Solar Eclipses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/08\/11\/eclipse-outline-1_wide-b597df1252e38a29926de1ecb7f2222c267115f0.jpg?s=600' alt='On Nov. 13, 2012, a narrow corridor in the southern hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse. The corridor lay mostly over the ocean but also cut across the northern tip of Australia where both professional and amateur astronomers gathered to watch.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The Earth won&#8217;t enjoy total solar eclipses forever because the moon is moving farther away, so it looks smaller and smaller over time.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Romeo Durscher\/NASA Goddard Space Center\/Flickr)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=542700588' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth won&#8217;t enjoy total solar eclipses forever because the moon is moving farther away, so it looks smaller and smaller over time.<\/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-358314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358314","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=358314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358315,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358314\/revisions\/358315"}],"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=358314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}