{"id":1282,"date":"2012-10-02T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T23:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T23:21:45","slug":"id-like-to-see-a-shadow-cast-by-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"I&rsquo;d like to see a shadow cast by Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-october-2-9\">The Sky This Week, 2012 October 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With sunrise in Washington now occurring after 7:00 am EDT many of us are being dazzled by the bright glimmer of Venus in the east as we gather the morning paper or walk the family dog. The planet shines at a blazing magnitude of -4.1, which is<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"> bright enough to cast shadows in very dark locations<\/font>. You won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see your shadow by the light of Venus this week since the Moon gives her fierce competition, but later this month you can try to spot this elusive sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-october-2-9\">The Sky This Week, 2012 October 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2012 October 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal With sunrise in Washington now occurring after 7:00 am EDT many of us are being dazzled by the bright glimmer of Venus in the east as we gather the morning paper or walk the family dog. The planet shines at a blazing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&rsquo;d like to see a shadow cast by Venus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}