{"id":1681,"date":"2017-08-02T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T21:18:04","slug":"sargent-has-been-through-a-1160-year-eclipse-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2017\/08\/02\/sargent-has-been-through-a-1160-year-eclipse-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Sargent Has Been Through a 1,160 Year Eclipse Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I read an interesting quote recently from the book <em>Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses<\/em>\u00a0by John Dvorak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWithin the United States, an eclipse drought is about to end for the small community of North Platte, Nebraska. The most recent total solar eclipse visible from that location was on July 29, 957 C.E. The next will be on August 21, 2017, an eclipse drought of 1,160 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Now I am assuming that this fact also applies to Sargent, Nebraska. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25644-total-solar-eclipses-frequency-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The average frequency for a total eclipse of the sun for any given point on the Earth&#8217;s surface is once in 375 years.<\/a> After August 21, the eclipse drought will be over! So join the community on the school\u2019s football field on August 21, starting at 11:30 a.m., and let\u2019s celebrate. Thanks to a grant from the STAR Library Network \u2013 STEM Learning in Libraries, our library is able to provide free eclipse glasses for everyone before and during the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1683 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2017\/08\/solar-eclipse-diamond-hires_resized-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2017\/08\/solar-eclipse-diamond-hires_resized-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/files\/2017\/08\/solar-eclipse-diamond-hires_resized.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an interesting quote recently from the book Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses\u00a0by John Dvorak. \u201cWithin the United States, an eclipse drought is about to end for the small community of North <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/2017\/08\/02\/sargent-has-been-through-a-1160-year-eclipse-drought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Sargent Has Been Through a 1,160 Year Eclipse Drought<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uT5W-r7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}