{"id":815,"date":"2012-10-16T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=815"},"modified":"2012-01-14T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T02:45:23","slug":"the-moon-and-mercury-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"The Moon and Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a very close conjunction of the Moon and Mercury this evening.  A very thin moon, only 4% illuminated will pass the planet at a mere 42 arc-minutes separation.  Taking into account the 30 arc-minute diameter of the Moon will leave Mercury less than 30 arc-minutes from the limb of the Moon. Mercury will be shining brightly at -0.2 magnitude, a nice match for the very young Moon.  The pair will be about 15&deg; above the horizon at sunset, allowing an excellent view of the conjunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a very close conjunction of the Moon and Mercury this evening. A very thin moon, only 4% illuminated will pass the planet at a mere 42 arc-minutes separation. Taking into account the 30 arc-minute diameter of the Moon will leave Mercury less than 30 arc-minutes from the limb of the Moon. Mercury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon and Mercury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,35,45],"tags":[92,63],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}