{"id":177,"date":"2004-10-22T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/total-lunar-eclipse-oct-27-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T20:51:05","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-oct-27-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Total Lunar Eclipse &#8211; Oct. 27, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"October Lunar Eclipse\" href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2004\/13oct_lunareclipse.htm\">October Lunar Eclipse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, Oct. 27th, North Americans can see a total eclipse of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>According to folklore, October&#8217;s full moon is called the &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; or sometimes the &#8220;Blood Moon.&#8221; It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood.<\/p>\n<p>see captionThe Blood Moon rises this year on Wednesday, Oct. 27th. At first it will seem pale and cold, as usual. And then &#8230; blood red.<\/p>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s a lunar eclipse. Beginning at 9:14 p.m. EDT (6:14 p.m. PDT), the moon will glide through Earth&#8217;s shadow for more than three hours.<\/b> Observers on every continent except Australia can see the event: The pale-white moon will turn pumpkin orange as it plunges into shadow, becoming eerie red during totality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October Lunar Eclipse On Wednesday night, Oct. 27th, North Americans can see a total eclipse of the moon. According to folklore, October&#8217;s full moon is called the &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; or sometimes the &#8220;Blood Moon.&#8221; It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Total Lunar Eclipse &#8211; Oct. 27, 2004<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}