{"id":13599,"date":"2015-03-20T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2015-03-20T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:00:17","slug":"solar-eclipse-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13599","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032001.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nI was thinking it would be too overcast to see the eclipse. But soon after 9am a bright crescent sun could be seen through the clouds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032002.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nOther people, like me, took a break from work to enjoy what we have not seen in Abingdon since 1999.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032004.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Abbey Meadows a crowd had gathered.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032003.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Astonomical Society were there with telescopes and charts as part of the ATOM Science Festival.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032005.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIt grew cooler and darker as the moon moved in front of the sun. Most of the time the eclipse could be seen through clouds &#8211; ideal viewing for those of us who were not properly prepared;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032008.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nbut then there were moments when the clouds opened and the special glasses became essential.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15032012.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Eclipse in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThanks to Peter from Abingdon Camera Club for sending me a final, extra clear, image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking it would be too overcast to see the eclipse. But soon after 9am a bright crescent sun could be seen through the clouds. Other people, like me, took a break from work to enjoy what we have not seen in Abingdon since 1999. At the Abbey Meadows a crowd had gathered. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}