{"id":7779,"date":"2017-01-25T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:49:30","slug":"we-could-all-be-blotted-out-in-an-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/25\/we-could-all-be-blotted-out-in-an-instance\/","title":{"rendered":"We Could All Be Blotted Out In An Instance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=24&amp;month=01&amp;year=2017\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> on a recent solar event:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceweather.com\/images2017\/23jan17\/prom_strip.jpg?resize=615%2C429\" width=\"615\" height=\"429\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <strong>NASA\/Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SOLAR PROMINENCE: <\/span><\/strong> A giant cloud of plasma is dancing over the sun&#8217;s western limb today.\u00a0Shown here in a snapshot from NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, the structure is more than 80,000 km tall and could swallow our planet more than 50 times with room to spare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really like that picture. It reminds me that all of our contretemps on this puny globe could be erased by the solar hiccup of a trivial little star on the edge of a mediocre galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceweather.com reports on a recent solar event: SOLAR PROMINENCE: A giant cloud of plasma is dancing over the sun&#8217;s western limb today.\u00a0Shown here in a snapshot from NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, the structure is more than 80,000 km tall and could swallow our planet more than 50 times with room \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/25\/we-could-all-be-blotted-out-in-an-instance\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}