{"id":3978,"date":"2020-12-21T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:00:36","slug":"damp-squib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"Damp Squib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really looking forward to observing the celestial conjunction this evening where <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Saturn<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jupiter<\/strong> <\/span>appear as a double planet. Sadly it was raining and not one star to see in the night sky. I did go to have a look but only found 3 strange blokes on camels who were lost! Seriously our British weather often spoils events like this-I can recall being invited into a home made observatory with a fantastic scope to see <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Halley&#8217;s Comet<\/strong> <\/span>( a one in 76 years chance) and it was a similar night as tonight.<\/p>\n<p>We did manage to get a cycle in today; it was being <em><strong>Postman Pat<\/strong> <\/em>(not sure which one of us was <strong><em>Jess the Black and White Cat<\/em><\/strong>). Luckily it was before\u00a0the heavy rain started although it was damp and mizzle for us!<\/p>\n<p>A <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Cosmic Quiz<\/strong> <\/span>for today.<\/p>\n<p>a) How long ago did <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Saturn<\/strong> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><strong>Jupiter<\/strong> <\/span>last have a similar conjunction? b) What is the name of the <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>largest volcano<\/strong> <\/span>in the Solar System and what planet is it on? c) What is a <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Supernova<\/strong><\/span>?\u00a0 d) How many <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>moons<\/strong><\/span> does\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mars<\/span><\/strong> have? e) How long does it take for the <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><strong>Sun&#8217;s rays<\/strong> <\/span>in minutes to reach the <strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Earth<\/span><\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really looking forward to observing the celestial conjunction this evening where Saturn and Jupiter appear as a double planet. Sadly it was raining and not one star to see in the night sky. I did go to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-12a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}