{"id":23789,"date":"2020-10-03T04:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23789"},"modified":"2020-10-03T04:50:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:50:34","slug":"driving-to-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23789","title":{"rendered":"Driving to the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2010\/SDO_2020Oct2_1024_0171.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>How long would it take to drive to the Sun? Brittany age 7, and D.J. age 12, ponder this question over dinner one evening. James also age 7, suggests taking a really fast racing car while Christopher age 4, eagerly agrees. Jerry, a really old guy who is used to estimating driving time on family trips based on distance divided by speed, offers to do the numbers. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see &#8230; the Sun is 93 million miles away. If we drove 93 miles per hour the trip would only take us 1 million hours.&#8221; How long is 1 million hours? One year is 365 days times 24 hours per day, or 8,760 hours. One hundred years would be 876,000 hours, but that&#8217;s still a little short of the 1 million hour drive time. So the Sun is really quite far away. Christopher is not impressed, but as he grows older he will be. You&#8217;ve got to be impressed by something that&#8217;s 93 million miles away and still hurts your eyes when you look at it! via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201003.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long would it take to drive to the Sun? Brittany age 7, and D.J. age 12, ponder this question over dinner one evening. James also age 7, suggests taking <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23789\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23790,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}