{"id":6687,"date":"2015-07-31T23:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2015-08-14T23:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T06:49:01","slug":"blue-moon-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/31\/blue-moon-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Moon Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article29605579.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Miami Herald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Once in a \u2018blue moon\u2019 happens Friday<\/h1>\n<p><strong><span class=\"ng_byline_name\">By Carli Teproff<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"This AP file photo from 2010 shows a blue moon from Nairobi, Kenya. There will be a blue moon Friday.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/nhjg2q\/picture29605576\/ALTERNATES\/FREE_960\/full%20moon\" alt=\"This AP file photo from 2010 shows a blue moon from Nairobi, Kenya. There will be a blue moon Friday.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-preload=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/nhjg2q\/picture29605576\/ALTERNATES\/FREE_960\/full%20moon\" \/><em>This AP file photo from 2010 shows a blue moon from Nairobi, Kenya. There will be a blue moon Friday. <span class=\"photographer\">Sayyid Azim<\/span> <span class=\"credits\">AP<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Full-moon lovers will get their fill this month, when the earth&#8217;s satellite makes its second July appearance on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed a <em>blue moon<\/em> \u2014 the special occasion happens only about every two-and-a-half years because the lunar year and calendar year don\u2019t quite match up. The last blue moon was in August 2012 and the next won\u2019t be until January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a rare lunar occurrence,\u201d said Barb Yager, an officer with Miami-based Southern Cross Astronomical Society. \u201cPeople get excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name is deceiving because the moon isn\u2019t actually blue; it appears to have a bluish hue only if there is volcanic ash. In fact, the name has come to mean something that happens only once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article29605579.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Miami Herald<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Miami Herald Once in a \u2018blue moon\u2019 happens Friday By Carli Teproff This AP file photo from 2010 shows a blue moon from Nairobi, Kenya. There will be a blue moon Friday. Sayyid Azim AP Full-moon lovers will get their fill this month, when the earth&#8217;s satellite makes its second July appearance on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}