{"id":30735,"date":"2024-03-25T08:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30735"},"modified":"2024-03-22T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:27:34","slug":"moffett-speaks-to-local-news-about-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/moffett-speaks-to-local-news-about-solar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Moffett speaks to local news about solar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/doctors-warn-permanent-eye-damage-solar-eclipse\/60270498\">WYFF News 4<\/a> report about the upcoming solar eclipse and the danger it potentially poses, Furman University&#8217;s David Moffett is quoted. Moffett, professor and chair of the physics department, explains some of the characteristics of the April 8 partial eclipse. He&#8217;ll travel to Dallas to view and capture photos of the eclipse in totality as part of his ongoing research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty percent of the sun will be obscured by the moon in our area April 8 during a partial eclipse. In a story about the dangers of looking at the celestial event, a local TV station turns to Furman&#8217;s David Moffett, professor and chair of the physics department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,120],"tags":[2652,2651,2650],"class_list":["post-30735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-physics","category-wyff-tv","tag-astronomical-events","tag-physics","tag-solar-eclipse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}