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Rory, 11, said it was “incredible”.<\/p>\n

“It’s really a once-in-a-generation experience,” he said.<\/p>\n

Brother Max said he felt it “had gone really cold”. <\/p>\n

“The Sun generates all the heat and the Moon is blocking out the Sun,” he explained.<\/p>\n

Their mum Tracey said she felt “really lucky” to see a second solar eclipse in her lifetime.<\/p>\n

Ash, 18, said she was fascinated by astronomy.<\/p>\n

“I like the fact you don’t know what’s out there. You don’t really know how everything works, it’s just really fascinating to me.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen anything like it before, it’s really exciting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory, 11, said it was “incredible”. “It’s really a once-in-a-generation experience,” he said. Brother Max said he felt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-735982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}