{"id":1012,"date":"2006-10-30T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/10\/30\/near-and-far\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T01:59:56","slug":"near-and-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/near-and-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Near and Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confession time:  I didn&#8217;t successfully figure out what <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yfrxkh\">these two crescents<\/a> were, until I read the explanation at <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap061030.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a>.  Can you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap061030.html\"><img class='center' width='500' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/venusmoon_eder.jpg' alt='Crescents' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The big one is the Moon; the small one is Venus.    A few minutes after this picture was taken, Venus was eclipsed by the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confession time: I didn&#8217;t successfully figure out what these two crescents were, until I read the explanation at Astronomy Picture of the Day. Can you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}