{"id":20647,"date":"2017-01-25T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20647"},"modified":"2016-12-17T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T22:11:28","slug":"venus-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20647","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5214\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=5214\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5214\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120715MoonVenusJove-e1482012598608-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Moon, Venus and Jupiter\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A morning conjunction of the three brightest objects in the night sky, the Moon, Venus and Jupiter on the morning of July 15, 2012, the Pleiades star cluster can be seen at the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>Over the coming weeks Venus and Mars will dance in the sunset.  Close approach will occur on February 2nd, with the pair about 5\u00b0 apart.  They will remain in close proximity in the sky for much of February, finally disappearing into the glare of sunset around the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of the 31st, a pretty crescent Moon will join this dance in the sunset, forming a triangle about 5\u00b0 across.  A 16% illuminated crescent moon with make a lovely trio with the bright planets.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the coming weeks Venus and Mars will dance in the sunset. Close approach will occur on February 2nd, with the pair about 5\u00b0 apart. They will remain in close proximity in the sky for much of February, finally disappearing into the glare of sunset around the end of the month. On the evening of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=20647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Venus and Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1510,115,63,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}