{"id":97394,"date":"2019-10-13T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/tonight-will-be-the-darkest-night-of-the-past-500-years"},"modified":"2019-10-13T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:23:14","slug":"tonight-will-be-the-darkest-night-of-the-past-500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/tonight-will-be-the-darkest-night-of-the-past-500-years","title":{"rendered":"Tonight will be the darkest night of the past 500 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tonight-will-be-the-darkest-night-of-the-past-500-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a lunar eclipse on the longest night of the year, tonight we\u2019ll be experiencing the longest, darkest night in a very long time. It\u2019s been nearly 500 years since the last solstice lunar eclipse. Here\u2019s what you\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eclipse photo by Chris Hondros\/Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NYU science journalism professor John Rennie <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/retort\/2010\/12\/20\/the-real-12-stages-of-a-lunar-eclipse\/\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/retort\/2010\/12\/20\/the-real-12-stages-of-a-lunar-eclipse\/\">explains what you\u2019re likely to see<\/a> in the wee hours of the morning:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a lunar eclipse on the longest night of the year, tonight we\u2019ll be experiencing the longest, darkest night in a very long time. It\u2019s been nearly 500 years since the last solstice lunar eclipse. Here\u2019s what you\u2019ll see. Eclipse photo by Chris Hondros\/Getty. NYU science journalism professor John Rennie explains what you\u2019re likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97394","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}