{"id":244156,"date":"2016-08-30T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244156"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:25:49","slug":"ghana-set-for-partial-solar-eclipse-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244156","title":{"rendered":"Ghana set for partial solar eclipse on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaians can brace themselves for a partial solar eclipse on \u00a0Thursday, September 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts the moon will\u00a0come between the sun and the earth on Thursday but as the two celestial bodies won&#8217;t be precisely aligned, it will only cause a partial eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaians will be able to view the phenomenon from \u00a06:13am to 9am.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_244159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244159\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-244159\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"Total solar eclipse in Ghana , March 2016\" width=\"587\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Total solar eclipse in Ghana , March 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People who want to witness the partial eclipse will have to wear protective glasses as the sun&#8217;s\u00a0UV radiation can burn the retinas of the eyes and cause blindness.<br id=\"0.8850293247823116\" \/><br id=\"0.49461180771244884\" \/>Ghana&#8217;s last\u00a0partial solar eclipse was three years ago on November 3, 2013\u00a0 however the\u00a0country\u00a0experienced a total solar eclipse on March 29, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaians can brace themselves for a partial solar eclipse on \u00a0Thursday, September 1, 2016. According to experts the moon will\u00a0come between the sun and the earth on Thursday but as the two celestial bodies won&#8217;t be precisely aligned, it will only cause a partial eclipse. Ghanaians will be able to view the phenomenon from \u00a06:13am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":244158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}