{"id":30827,"date":"2021-12-21T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=30827"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:31:00","slug":"not-quite-on-top-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/12\/not-quite-on-top-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Not <em>quite<\/em> on top of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had gotten involved in other things this morning and wasn&#8217;t playing close attention to the time, and then suddenly realized that I was missing the solstice! So I grabbed the camera and dashed out to snag the shot, to salvage what I could.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SolsticeSun.jpg\" alt=\"just a grey sky - lol, as they say\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30828\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This was actually nine minutes past the solstice time of 15:59 UTC, and as you can see, the sun is a few hundredths of an arcsecond <em>higher<\/em> than its lowest elevation for the year, but I&#8217;m counting on people that aren&#8217;t that well-versed in elevations (or believe that Walkabout Studios is further south than it is) to miss this detail. <\/p>\n<p>Ah, who am I kidding? I blew it, and it&#8217;s obvious, so a <em>real<\/em> man would own it and embrace the shame, and do better next year.<\/p>\n<p>Though in this case it really is The Girlfriend&#8217;s fault for interrupting me so often this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had gotten involved in other things this morning and wasn&#8217;t playing close attention to the time, and then suddenly realized that I was missing the solstice! So I grabbed the camera and dashed out to snag the shot, to salvage what I could. This was actually nine minutes past the solstice time of 15:59 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6574,6577,6575,2133],"class_list":["post-30827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-blame-where-blame-is-due","tag-fancy-solar-filter","tag-them-damn-libs","tag-winter-solstice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}