{"id":454,"date":"2005-06-20T17:42:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=454"},"modified":"2005-06-20T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T22:42:57","slug":"on-the-summer-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"On the Summer Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2005\/20jun_moonillusion.htm?list161084\">Expect to see a super-sized Moon this week.<\/a>  From NASA&#8217;s webpage on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStep outside any evening at sunset and look around. You&#8217;ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth&#8217;s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something&#8217;s wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It&#8217;s huge!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just experienced the Moon Illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sky watchers have known this for thousands of years: moons hanging low in the sky look unnaturally big. Cameras don&#8217;t see it, but our eyes do. It&#8217;s a real illusion.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s full moon hangs lower in the sky than any full moon since June 1987, so the Moon Illusion is going to be extra strong.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go!  Look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect to see a super-sized Moon this week. From NASA&#8217;s webpage on the subject: Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You&#8217;ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth&#8217;s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something&#8217;s wrong. This full<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=454\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Summer Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4111,719],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy","tag-moon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}