{"id":30972,"date":"2017-08-09T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2017-08-14T06:12:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T11:12:43","slug":"greeted-by-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30972","title":{"rendered":"Greeted by the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My alarm clock is set for 6:15.  It&#8217;s a good time to get up.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes for my bladder, 6:15 is simply too late.  Twenty or thirty minutes before the alarm clock goes off, my bladder will be insistent that <i>now<\/i> is the time to get up.  &#8220;Now!&#8221; it screams.  &#8220;<i>Now!<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was one of those mornings.  The rest of my body dragged itself out of bed wearily, because the bladder couldn&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning from the bathroom, I was greeted by a sight through the bedroom window &mdash; the nearly full moon through the trees behind the complex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1588\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170809_055558-1200x1588.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-fullwidth wp-image-30974\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cosmic dance of the solar system&#8217;s movement through the stars goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alarm clock is set for 6:15. It&#8217;s a good time to get up. Sometimes for my bladder, 6:15 is simply too late. Twenty or thirty minutes before the alarm clock goes off, my bladder will be insistent that now is the time to get up. &#8220;Now!&#8221; it screams. &#8220;Now!&#8221; This was one of those<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30972\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Greeted by the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[719],"class_list":["post-30972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-moon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}