{"id":8591,"date":"2017-08-21T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:01:17","slug":"dont-look-at-the-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/21\/dont-look-at-the-fireball\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look At The Fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3737424\/solar-eclipse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from TIME<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>How to Watch the Solar Eclipse Like a 1960s School Kid<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"text font-accent color-brand size-1x-small _1HynphR0\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/author\/eliza-berman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"363\">by Eliza Berman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timedotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/150309-solar-eclipse-01.jpg?quality=85&amp;w=366\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Caption from LIFE. Fifth-graders at the Emerson School in Maywood, Ill. line up with backs to the sun and their eclipse \/\u00a0<\/em><em><span class=\"_2VEpn5gm\" data-reactid=\"285\">Francis Miller\u2014The LIFE Picture Collection\/Getty Images<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4906819\/solar-eclipse-map-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"383\"> lucky Americans<\/a> in position to see <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4750899\/total-solar-eclipse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"386\">Monday&#8217;s total solar eclipse <\/a>\u2014which will <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4884482\/total-solar-eclipse-2017-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reactid=\"389\">touch 14 states<\/a> as it crosses the country from coast to coast \u2014 you\u2019d do well to take a tip from 1963\u2019s fifth grade class of the Emerson School in Maywood, Illinois. Wielding cardboard boxes and knives that today would surely get a kid suspended, the kids demonstrated for LIFE\u2019s readers how to safely look at an eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>During the solar eclipse of 1960, hundreds of people had suffered permanent eye damage from looking directly at the sun. With help from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Emerson students avoided the same fate by building Sunscopes, pinhole camera-like contraptions that indirectly project an image of the sun. The magazine offered instructions for those desiring to replicate the project at home:<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3737424\/solar-eclipse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME How to Watch the Solar Eclipse Like a 1960s School Kid by Eliza Berman Caption from LIFE. Fifth-graders at the Emerson School in Maywood, Ill. line up with backs to the sun and their eclipse \/\u00a0Francis Miller\u2014The LIFE Picture Collection\/Getty Images If you are one of the lucky Americans in position to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}