{"id":575,"date":"2012-09-04T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:34:48","slug":"romantic-blue-moon-8312012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/2012\/09\/04\/romantic-blue-moon-8312012\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic BLUE MOON (8\/31\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Have you seen &#8220;BLUE MOON &#8221; ?<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/romantic-blue-moon-8312012\/blue-moon-close-up-osaka1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-590\" title=\"blue-moon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/blue-moon-close-up-osaka1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight (8\/31\/2012), about 10 pm, I open my \u00a0house door just to check if we have a clear night sky. Amazingly, I saw a beautiful bright bluish full moon bathing inside the clouds . At that moment, I felt tonight&#8217;s moon was very unique &#8220;cool &amp; amazingly beautiful&#8221;. It was very much different from the full moon that I used to see all the time. Somehow, I was stunned\/touched by the scene and had a pulse that I want to catch that moment. Immediately, I went upstairs to look for my camera. I did take some photos. But, I have to admit, the taken scenes were not as beautiful as the one that I just saw few minutes ago. I was puzzled and wondered why tonight&#8217;s moon was so unique ??? Then I start google searching and found out : tonight&#8217; moosn is really a special one . \u00a0People called it &#8220;BLUE MOON&#8221; night .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope you will see the same scene in another 2.7 years !!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Please see the following info\/link for BLUE MOON ! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/ataglance\">http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/ataglance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, Aug 31 \/ 2012<br \/>\nFull Moon (exact at 9:58 a.m. EDT). \u00a0It is a &#8220;blue Moon ! \u00a0The term refers to the second full Moon in a calendar month. Blue Moons come once every 2.7 years on average. The next is on July 31, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen &#8220;BLUE MOON &#8221; ? Tonight (8\/31\/2012), about 10 pm, I open my \u00a0house door just to check if we have a clear night sky. Amazingly, I saw a beautiful bright bluish full moon bathing inside the clouds . At that moment, I felt tonight&#8217;s moon was very unique &#8220;cool &amp; amazingly beautiful&#8221;. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/2012\/09\/04\/romantic-blue-moon-8312012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romantic BLUE MOON (8\/31\/2012)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JHSt-9h","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.j-journey.com\/j-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}