{"id":720,"date":"2011-02-01T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=720"},"modified":"2011-02-01T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:10:41","slug":"new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-february-1-8\">The Sky This Week, 2011 February 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Moon occurs on the 2nd at 9:31 pm Eastern Standard Time. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 On the evening of the 3rd you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have the rare opportunity to sight a very young crescent Moon. If you look about five degrees above the west-southwest horizon at around 6:00 pm EST you may be able to spot the 21-hour-old crescent as a thin, hair-like gash of light against the twilight sky. A very clear atmosphere and an unobstructed view of the horizon are essential to accomplish this feat, and a pair of binoculars will make it a little easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-february-1-8\">The Sky This Week, 2011 February 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2011 February 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal New Moon occurs on the 2nd at 9:31 pm Eastern Standard Time. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 On the evening of the 3rd you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have the rare opportunity to sight a very young crescent Moon. If you look about five degrees above the west-southwest horizon at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Moon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}