{"id":3051,"date":"2014-01-14T04:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2016-12-04T03:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T09:20:48","slug":"crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2014\/01\/14\/crescent-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to talk about the moon.<\/p>\n<p>It must be nearly full, for as the dogs and I walked around the track tonite, we cast dark moon shadows onto the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the moon I want to talk about. I want to talk about a thin, crescent moon that sat in the west a few weeks ago as I drove home from work.<\/p>\n<p>From the overpass at the end of the drive, that crescent moon was hanging above the horizon with Venus perched below. The sky above was dark indigo; night was falling. The sky below was rose-red; day was fleeing. And there was the moon and Venus orchestrating it all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/crescent-moon-venus-telephone-poles.jpg\" alt=\"Crescent moon venus telephone poles\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to talk about the moon. It must be nearly full, for as the dogs and I walked around the track tonite, we cast dark moon shadows onto the ground. But that\u2019s not the moon I want to talk about. I want to talk about a thin, crescent moon that sat in the west [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}