{"id":7587,"date":"2012-06-05T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2012-06-05T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T22:09:00","slug":"tonight-and-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tonight-and-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight and tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case there is anyone reading who has just logged online after spending the past ten years in suspended animation: Venus will be passing in front of the sun, starting any minute now. There&#8217;s plenty of information about the transit <a href=\"http:\/\/volcanocafe.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/05\/venus-transit-2012-and-some-facts-about-venus\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, including links to numerous live streams. You can also follow the event on the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the Katmai\/Novarupta eruption, probably the most violent event on earth in the 20th century. I don&#8217;t have time to write about it, but I expect there will be commemorative posts at volcano blogs such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/eruptions\" target=\"_blank\">Eruptions<\/a>. <strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/?p=113911\" target=\"_blank\">~5,300 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers per hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Open the APOD image in another window to see it at full size, 4096 pixels square.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"In transit\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus060512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus060512-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"In transit\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus060512-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus060512-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus060512-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case there is anyone reading who has just logged online after spending the past ten years in suspended animation: Venus will be passing in front of the sun, starting any minute now. There&#8217;s plenty of information about the transit here, including links to numerous live streams. You can also follow the event on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tonight-and-tomorrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tonight and tomorrow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[71,600],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-volcanoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1Yn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}