{"id":9449,"date":"2008-08-27T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2013-05-07T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:58:22","slug":"under-the-china-sun-nau-fan-totally-eclipses-rival-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/under-the-china-sun-nau-fan-totally-eclipses-rival-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the China sun: NAU fan totally eclipses rival supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Julie Gess-Newsome<\/strong>, director for the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, joined her eclipse-chasing sister and brother-in-law in China, where they caught the center line of the solar eclipse last month.<\/p>\n<p>Her desire to share the experience with her colleagues back in Flagstaff led her to a unique display of school spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing is a little trick my sister learned,&#8221; Gess-Newsome said. &#8220;Take a piece of cardboard and poke a hole in it. When you take it outside, allowing the sun shine through the holes onto the ground or onto a piece of paper, you will see an image of the sun reflected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a partial eclipse, she explained, you see the reflection of the sun with the shadow of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Using a template she crafted replicating the NAU logo, Gess-Newsome projected dozens of little suns during the solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With every hole you&#8217;re getting a picture of the sun,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/under-the-china-sun-nau-fan-totally-eclipses-rival-supporters\/\">Julie Gess-Newsome, director for the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, joined her eclipse-chasing sister and brother-in-law in China, where they caught the center line of the solar eclipse last month. Her desire to share the experience with her colleagues back in Flagstaff led her to a unique display of school spirit. &#8220;What you&#8217;re seeing&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":9452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}