{"id":297,"date":"2007-08-28T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/total-eclipse-of-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:19:43","slug":"total-eclipse-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/total-eclipse-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Eclipse of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/1259153670\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1239\/1259153670_ba096da175_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/1259153670\/\">Lunar Eclipse<\/a><br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/big_dadoo\/\">Big Dadoo<\/a><br \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Hey, isn&#8217;t that a Pink Floyd song on Dark Side of the Moon? No, the song I was thinking of was Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=31282434&amp;s=143455&amp;i=31283342\">Total Eclipse of the Heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we rolled out of bed this morning at 3:45am to catch the event. Initially, it was a little cloudy but the skies cleared for a perfect view of the total lunar eclipse, the first in the 21st century. About half way through I went back to the cottage to pick up the camera and get a few shots. As the eclipse proceeded and the moon dimmed more and more, the stars really started to pop out in the night sky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?s=int&amp;w=44072178%40N00&amp;q=moon&amp;m=tags\">Some more photos<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse\/LEmono\/TLE2007Aug28\/TLE2007Aug28.html\">NASA explanation<\/a> of the event<br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar Eclipse Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo Hey, isn&#8217;t that a Pink Floyd song on Dark Side of the Moon? No, the song I was thinking of was Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s Total Eclipse of the Heart. Anyway, we rolled out of bed this morning at 3:45am to catch the event. Initially, it was a little cloudy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}