{"id":2793,"date":"2023-08-09T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2023-08-09T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:25:41","slug":"total-eclipse-can-lead-to-total-spiritual-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Total eclipse can lead to total (spiritual) insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/telescope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/telescope.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/telescope.jpg 508w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/telescope-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lima, Ohio Observatory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people will descend on northwest Ohio <strong>April 8, 2024<\/strong>.  This area is in the &#8220;path of totality&#8221; for viewing a relatively <strong>rare total solar eclipse.<\/strong>  (There is one every 18 months, or so.)  People will come from all over the world, with the entire event lasting about two and a half hours, and complete totality lasting no more than three and a half minutes.  I just interviewed a local astronomer who said some astronomers from the eastern part of Ohio recently came to Lima to visit the observatory here.  He said they told him they had traveled to <strong>Australia<\/strong> to view the last total solar eclipse.  More than 10,000 miles and $2,500 to get there.  The Lima astronomer said that for some, a total solar eclipse is like a &#8220;spiritual experience.&#8221;  You know, I just wrote something to help raise funds for a solar, clean drinking water pump to go in in a rural village in Tanzania.  Some one billion people, worldwide, are without clean drinking water.  The plane tickets to Australia, for the Ohio astronomers combined, could have paid for one of those pumps.  And in my book (the Bible), that would have been a much more meaningful &#8220;spiritual experience.&#8221;  And sort of a: <strong><em>&#8216;&#8230;total eclipse, or change, of the heart&#8217;?<\/em><\/strong>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lima, Ohio Observatory Hundreds of thousands of people will descend on northwest Ohio April 8, 2024. This area is in the &#8220;path of totality&#8221; for viewing a relatively rare total solar eclipse. (There is one every 18 months, or so.) <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2793\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}