{"id":74949,"date":"2018-01-06T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-moon-is-about-to-do-something-it-hasnt-done-in-more-than-150-years"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:05:11","slug":"the-moon-is-about-to-do-something-it-hasnt-done-in-more-than-150-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-moon-is-about-to-do-something-it-hasnt-done-in-more-than-150-years","title":{"rendered":"The moon is about to do something it hasn\u2019t done in more than 150 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-moon-is-about-to-do-something-it-hasnt-done-in-more-than-150-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call it whatever you like\u2014a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon\u2014but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously that night, resulting in what some are calling a super blue blood <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">moon<\/a> eclipse. The astronomical rarity hasn\u2019t happened for more than 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>A super moon, like the one visible on New Year\u2019s Day, is the term for when a full moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, appearing bigger and brighter than normal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-01-moon-hasnt-years.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;01-moon-hasnt-years.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it whatever you like\u2014a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon\u2014but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31. Three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously that night, resulting in what some are calling a super blue blood moon eclipse. The astronomical rarity hasn\u2019t happened for more than 150 years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74989,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949\/revisions\/74989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}