{"id":952,"date":"2012-05-22T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=952"},"modified":"2012-05-20T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:02:21","slug":"a-thin-moon-and-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"A Thin Moon and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin crescent Moon will join Venus low in the evening sky tonight.  The Moon will be a mere 4.3% illuminated.  Both will be about 20% above the setting Sun and about 6%deg; apart.  As Venus approaches inferior conjunction and transit, it too will be a thin crescent, about 6.5% illuminated.  You will need a telescope to see the phase of Venus, but the beautiful pairing can be appreciated with the eye alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin crescent Moon will join Venus low in the evening sky tonight. The Moon will be a mere 4.3% illuminated. Both will be about 20% above the setting Sun and about 6%deg; apart. As Venus approaches inferior conjunction and transit, it too will be a thin crescent, about 6.5% illuminated. You will need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Thin Moon and Venus&#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":[447,63,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}