{"id":6683,"date":"2010-12-21T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2017-12-02T01:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:11:02","slug":"missed-it-the-total-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/missed-it-the-total-lunar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed it&#8230; the total lunar eclipse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6684\" title=\"total lunar eclipse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar_eclipse_21_12_2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Overcast Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weather was not on our side, so we missed quite the sight in the wee hours of this morning. The total <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_eclipse\" target=\"_blank\">lunar eclipse<\/a> that began a few hours ago took on a bloody red hue at its peak. Since the moon aligned with the Milky Way\u2019s stars this time around, an enhanced ambience <em>(apparently)<\/em> made it particularly spectacular. This total lunar eclipse is the first one to occur on the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere in 372 years\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Drat! Missed it, due to persistent cloud-cover\u2026 well, maybe next time around.\u00a0<\/em><em>:-|\u00a0<\/em><em>The photo sequence above was taken in Manassas, Virginia, showing the moon in different stages of today\u2019s total lunar eclipse. Source: NPR.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcast Manitoba Weather was not on our side, so we missed quite the sight in the wee hours of this morning. The total lunar eclipse that began a few hours ago took on a bloody red hue at its peak. Since the moon aligned with the Milky Way\u2019s stars this time around, an enhanced ambience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15696,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}