{"id":1734,"date":"2016-10-14T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T01:51:17","slug":"the-hunters-moon-1015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter&rsquo;s Moon, 10\/15-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2016-october-11-18\">The Sky This Week, 2016 October 11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 18<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Full Moon occurs on the 16th at 12:23 am Eastern Daylight Time. October\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Full Moon is popularly known as the Hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Moon. The geometry of the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s path in the sky is similar to last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Harvest Moon, so the interval between successive moonrises around the time of Full Moon causes Luna to appear to rise at nearly the same time for a few nights. In September this phenomena was used by farmers to use the light of the rising Moon to help them bring in more crops. This month hunters have a bit of extra light to pursue game across the stubble of the harvested fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2016 October 11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 18 Full Moon occurs on the 16th at 12:23 am Eastern Daylight Time. October\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Full Moon is popularly known as the Hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Moon. The geometry of the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s path in the sky is similar to last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Harvest Moon, so the interval between successive moonrises around the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hunter&rsquo;s Moon, 10\/15-16<\/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-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}