{"id":85415,"date":"2026-08-12T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85415"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:39:15","slug":"first-total-eclipse-in-europe-in-decades-turns-day-to-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/first-total-eclipse-in-europe-in-decades-turns-day-to-night\/","title":{"rendered":"First Total Eclipse in Europe in Decades Turns Day to Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/08\/12\/multimedia\/12europe-eclipse-ru-12-zkqc\/12europe-eclipse-ru-12-zkqc-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">The\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/10\/science\/europe-total-solar-eclipse-how-to-watch.html\">first total solar eclipse in decades<\/a>\u00a0in Europe swept across the continent on Wednesday, turning day to dark across several countries as crowds watched from hilltops, coastlines and other open spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">The coincidence of Earth, the moon and the sun falling into perfect alignment \u2014 a fleeting celestial event known as totality \u2014 created a frenzy across the region. People paid exorbitant hotel rates to be in the inner part, or umbra, of the lunar shadow. Along that path, where the sky was clear, the sun became a black disk ensconced in a hazy corona, surrounded by planets and stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The\u00a0first total solar eclipse in decades\u00a0in Europe swept across the continent on Wednesday, turning day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85416,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85415\/revisions\/85416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}