{"id":15782,"date":"2024-04-10T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=15782"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:39:52","slug":"eclipse-in-s-c-was-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/15782","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse in S.C. was a bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Diego Teixeira Setton&#8211;<\/strong>It\u2019s no lie that weather in Sioux City Is not the best, but this felt like a sick joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students hoping to catch a glimpse of the once\u2013in\u2013a\u2013generation event Monday were met with nothing but gray skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2024\/04\/Clouda.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15784\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2024\/04\/Clouda.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2024\/04\/Clouda-200x134.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>No sun. No eclipse.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I prepared to try and watch the eclipse today, I didn\u2019t see many students looking up at the sky. Maybe the occasional person or two, but everyone seemed pretty indifferent as there was nothing to look at up in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I insisted for around an hour, as I sat outside with my head up, hoping I could get a glimpse of the eclipse. I had a camera with me, but there was nothing to take pictures of.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My persistence ended up rewarding me twice, when a small hole in the clouds allowed me to barely see the sun for no more than 2 seconds. Even if only a small taste of what was really happening, it felt a bit special to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows when my next chance will be to watch a solar eclipse, so I wanted to make the best of what I had.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, people in Sioux City were met with a pretty disappointing eclipse day, in an unlucky turn of events that in all honesty, I wasn\u2019t really surprised by.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Diego Teixeira Setton&#8211;It\u2019s no lie that weather in Sioux City Is not the best, but this felt like a sick joke.\u00a0 Students hoping to catch a glimpse of the once\u2013in\u2013a\u2013generation event Monday were met with nothing but gray skies. As I prepared to try and watch the eclipse today, I didn\u2019t see many students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":15783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[56188,46880,46928,46935],"class_list":["post-15782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-morningsideuniversity-2","tag-msidelife","tag-msidemustangs","tag-msideproud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}