{"id":1054,"date":"2005-08-12T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2016-07-27T22:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T03:15:26","slug":"perseids-like-a-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Perseids like a baseball game&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set the alarm at 4:40 AM, got out of bed, checked the sky to make sure it was not cloudy; when I saw stars I knew I had no choice, so I slipped on a pair of shorts and a T shirt, screwed the tripod to my camera and headed out.<\/p>\n<p>I was scared to go on the beach so i stayed on the walkway. I realize that travelling alone makes me more cautious because should anything happen to me no one would know&#8230;or report me missing&#8230; Thats why I refrained from lying in the sand on my back. Instead I leaned against the bannister and looked up&#8230;<br \/>\nNow, if anyone stands with head tilted back long enough, the blood flow to the brain gets cut off and you DO see stars&#8230;which I did, plenty of.<br \/>\nWere they shooting stars? I am not so sure&#8230;I did sense movement out of the corner of my eye a few times, but my reflex was always to blink, and of course, by the time I opened them again, the star was long gone. It seems I was always looking in the wrong direction, either down to swat a moskitoe, or back to make sure no one was coming at me with a machete, or straight in front at a fully lit cruise ship sailing to Port Canaveral.<br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s why I say that looking for perseids was like attending a baseball game: I was never looking at the right place when something happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I came in when the sun started coming up, went back to bed and slept till nine. It seems I missed the launch of Atlas&#8230;What did I say about not looking at the right place at the right time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set the alarm at 4:40 AM, got out of bed, checked the sky to make sure it was not cloudy; when I saw stars I knew I had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}