{"id":133543,"date":"2022-01-04T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/were-losing-a-planet-say-goodbye-to-venus-now-a-slim-crescent-sinking-in-the-west"},"modified":"2022-01-04T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:42:50","slug":"were-losing-a-planet-say-goodbye-to-venus-now-a-slim-crescent-sinking-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/were-losing-a-planet-say-goodbye-to-venus-now-a-slim-crescent-sinking-in-the-west","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Losing A Planet: Say Goodbye To Venus, Now A Slim Crescent Sinking In The West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-losing-a-planet-say-goodbye-to-venus-now-a-slim-crescent-sinking-in-the-west2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planet-spotting is all about perspective.<\/p>\n<p>From where we stand in our orbit of the Sun the closest planet to us, Venus, will come to what astronomers call inferior conjunction on Sunday, January 9.<\/p>\n<p>After over six months of shining brightly in the west in the post-sunset sky in its apparition as the \u201cEvening Star,\u201d on that day Venus will finally disappear from sight.\u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet-spotting is all about perspective. From where we stand in our orbit of the Sun the closest planet to us, Venus, will come to what astronomers call inferior conjunction on Sunday, January 9. After over six months of shining brightly in the west in the post-sunset sky in its apparition as the \u201cEvening Star,\u201d on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}