{"id":11735,"date":"2016-05-12T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11735"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:40:39","slug":"photo-of-the-day-catching-a-falling-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/photo-of-the-day-catching-a-falling-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Catching a falling star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e have driven past this monument in the Half Moon Bay section of Barrhaven many times, and I&#8217;ve always been curious about it. Last night after swimming lessons, Lucas and I decided to head over to check it out up close.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a placard that explains that what I thought might have been a starfish is actually a falling star, and the monument is one to whimsey and astronomy &#8211; two of my favourite things! So I told Lucas: &#8220;Go catch that falling star!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/26892904881\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Catch a falling star\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7279\/26892904881_7227b44306_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Catch a falling star\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lesson is that if you have the chance to chase a falling star with a lively eight-year-old at sunset on a pretty late spring evening, you should absolutely do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have driven past this monument in the Half Moon Bay section of Barrhaven many times, and I&#8217;ve always been curious about it. Last night after swimming lessons, Lucas and I decided to head over to check it out up close. There&#8217;s a placard that explains that what I thought might have been a starfish &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/photo-of-the-day-catching-a-falling-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Catching a falling star&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lucas","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11738,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions\/11738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}