{"id":776836,"date":"2024-02-11T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776836"},"modified":"2024-02-11T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:40:50","slug":"sharing-an-eclipse-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776836","title":{"rendered":"Sharing an eclipse with kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Step 1: Find a good spot<\/h2>\n<p>On a day <em>before<\/em> eclipse day, go outdoors to locate a good viewing spot, at the same time of day that the eclipse will be happening. Look for your shadow \u2014 if you can see the shadow of your head and shoulders clearly, whether it&#8217;s on the ground or on a wall, then you are in a good spot for observing the eclipse. If other shadows are touching the shadow of your head, you don&#8217;t have a clear view.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: This is a great\u00a0task to assign to kids. It&#8217;s fun to observe and identify good and bad spots to see their shadows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/sharing-an-eclipse-with-kids?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Find a good spot On a day before eclipse day, go outdoors to locate a good viewing spot, at the same time of day that the eclipse will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776836","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}