{"id":505,"date":"2012-06-05T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-1199783855.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/timeshare-travel-traveltuesday-venus-transits-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T13:14:00","slug":"timeshare-travel-traveltuesday-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/timeshare-travel-traveltuesday-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeshare Travel #TravelTuesday \u2013 Venus Transits the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AU0iZPH1K-M\/T84FxPsXaqI\/AAAAAAAAD30\/Tt8XpcGfWHo\/s1600\/2004+Venus+transit+from+the+Flager+Beach+Pier+in+Florida.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"\/content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2004VenustransitfromtheFlagerBeachPierinFlorida.jpg?e8f36016a5e5ac8268de30bcfa13f5dd\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today Venus transits the sun, which means that Venus passes between the sun and the earth, and with the proper protective eye equipment you&#8217;ll be able to watch this rare event. The last time this&nbsp;astronomical&nbsp;event&nbsp;occurred&nbsp;was in 2004, and it won&#8217;t happen again until 2117.<\/p>\n<p>Our #TravelTuesday photo is from the 2004 transit, taken from Flager Beach Pier in Florida. You can see the small dot of Venus near the right rim of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting bit of trivia: In the era of the telescope, there&#8217;s been 258 Total Solar Eclipses, but only eight Venus Transits, including today&#8217;s. (Neil deGrasse Tyson).<\/p>\n<p>This photo is courtesy of gateway.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today Venus transits the sun, which means that Venus passes between the sun and the earth, and with the proper protective eye equipment you&#8217;ll be able to watch this rare event. The last time this&nbsp;astronomical&nbsp;event&nbsp;occurred&nbsp;was in 2004, and it won&#8217;t happen again until 2117. Our #TravelTuesday photo is from the 2004 transit, taken from Flager&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog-origin.redweek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}