{"id":891,"date":"2010-10-31T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=891"},"modified":"2010-10-31T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:59:51","slug":"missed-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/10\/31\/missed-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the moon passing in front of Jupiter about a week or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>I had been watching for weeks as the new moon&#8217;s crescent waxed, and it approached brightly shining Jupiter along the ecliptic from the west. I had been watching night by night as the distance narrowed. And I was looking forward to the day.<\/p>\n<p>So then I&#8217;m in Houston, and I look up at the sky one night walking back from my brother in law&#8217;s house, and I see the moon a day or two on the other side of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;oh! I wouldn&#8217;t have made it as an astronomer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the moon passing in front of Jupiter about a week or so ago. I had been watching for weeks as the new moon&#8217;s crescent waxed, and it approached brightly shining Jupiter along the ecliptic from the west. I had been watching night by night as the distance narrowed. And I was looking forward [&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":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}