{"id":1025,"date":"2012-05-30T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2012-08-10T21:08:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T03:08:37","slug":"in-the-news-transit-of-venus-5-june6-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Transit of Venus, 5 June\/6 June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=1997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1997\" title=\"2012 transit of Venus, NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wtransit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wtransit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wtransit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wtransit-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wtransit.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you miss this event, expect to wait over a century to see it again (in December 2117). A transit of Venus happens when the planet passes between us and the sun. Although the last transit occurred in 2004, the event is usually extremely rare. Use <em>precautions<\/em>&#8212;view through welder&#8217;s glass, as you would for a solar eclipse&#8212;if you\u00a0plan to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you miss this event, expect to wait over a century to see it again (in December 2117). A transit of Venus happens when the planet passes between us and the sun. Although the last transit occurred in 2004, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=1025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-transit-of-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}