{"id":98403,"date":"2019-11-11T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T07:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/2019-mercury-transit"},"modified":"2019-11-18T03:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:43:29","slug":"2019-mercury-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/2019-mercury-transit","title":{"rendered":"2019 Mercury Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/434218960617704\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>Q: What did Mercury say when it was asked to line up between Earth and the Sun?<\/p>\n<p>A: I\u2019ll pass! \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>We were in for a rare treat during today\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/mercurytransit?source=feed_text&amp;epa=HASHTAG&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDXrizDiLimmotLr93JjXJ8JmUa9-VygmhrNH_fY25CaT7L1JmtuNwPT5Yjk2sak_s6rzpQ65I02msbxEMLkSB9tUrDl7mmQUGMj8pbr0YIdw-PjUVowsq4nrYASR7HVTu8zm_2W5EwWoVX-JcqQ-fI3oRDvKoog94t_nhLCyvy7-tyCXeVnPGlBV79aXaOEVXMSWmLz_oj1ykMfOUltbMEDTisHZhxX94DWHJ8rw9GGbxlDW_gmAsOQbpbHQM1gz_dKG7Lx7HIlMUBQJi4bHO3TDJi8qGU3a2dYcDkp40bHxOEpRPyHov3R6mJ9BQm8g&amp;__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{\u201d type\u201d:104,\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d*N\u201d}\"> #MercuryTransit<\/a>, which only happens about 13 times a century! Revel in the views captured our <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASASunScience\/?fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDXrizDiLimmotLr93JjXJ8JmUa9-VygmhrNH_fY25CaT7L1JmtuNwPT5Yjk2sak_s6rzpQ65I02msbxEMLkSB9tUrDl7mmQUGMj8pbr0YIdw-PjUVowsq4nrYASR7HVTu8zm_2W5EwWoVX-JcqQ-fI3oRDvKoog94t_nhLCyvy7-tyCXeVnPGlBV79aXaOEVXMSWmLz_oj1ykMfOUltbMEDTisHZhxX94DWHJ8rw9GGbxlDW_gmAsOQbpbHQM1gz_dKG7Lx7HIlMUBQJi4bHO3TDJi8qGU3a2dYcDkp40bHxOEpRPyHov3R6mJ9BQm8g&amp;__tn__=K-R\">NASA Sun Science<\/a>-observing satellite in a variety of a variety of wavelengths of light in the extreme ultraviolet: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2NF6tQQ\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2NF6tQQ\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2NF6tQQ<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What did Mercury say when it was asked to line up between Earth and the Sun? A: I\u2019ll pass! \ud83d\ude0e We were in for a rare treat during today\u2019s #MercuryTransit, which only happens about 13 times a century! Revel in the views captured our NASA Sun Science-observing satellite in a variety of a variety [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98714,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98403\/revisions\/98714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}