{"id":14822,"date":"2010-12-22T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14822"},"modified":"2010-12-22T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:18:49","slug":"good-morning-total-lunar-eclipse-december-21-2010-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/good-morning-total-lunar-eclipse-december-21-2010-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning, Total Lunar Eclipse of December 21, 2010. Winter Solstice."},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re a day late but that’s okay. The total lunar eclipse which happened to fall on the Winter Solstice for the first time in 500 years was obscured by clouds. Clouds! <\/p>\n

The weather has conspired against our celestial pleasures for the last time. Let this be our war on water vapor!<\/p>\n

In the meantime have a look at what Flickrers and Twitterers did with their photography devices.<\/p>\n

Lunar Eclipse, Everglades, Florida, December 21, 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Progression
via __Dori__<\/a> <\/div>\n

Total Lunar Eclipse (201012210001HQ)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Total
via NASA HQ photo<\/a> <\/div>\n

Space Shuttle Discovery at Launch Pad 39A<\/strong>
\nAnd our favorite photo for obvious reasons:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> <\/div>\n

“The beginning of a total lunar eclipse hovers over the top of space shuttle Discovery<\/a> at Launch Pad 39A.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See you in 2094, convergence of celestial events.<\/p>\n

via Flickr search “Total Lunar Eclipse December 21, 2010”<\/a>, mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re a day late but that’s okay. The total lunar eclipse which happened to fall on the Winter Solstice for the first time in 500 years was obscured by clouds. Clouds! The weather has conspired against our celestial pleasures for the last time. Let this be our war on water vapor! In the meantime have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,52,265,9],"tags":[3666,3663,1554,331,3664,208,3662,3665,781,4953],"class_list":["post-14822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flickrlicious","category-just-freaking-neat","category-photography","category-science","tag-bang-zoom-to-the-moon","tag-eclipse","tag-get-your-ass-to-the-moon","tag-la-lune","tag-lunar-eclipse-of-the-soul","tag-moon","tag-total-lunar-eclipse-december-21-2010","tag-totality","tag-twitpic","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14822"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14830,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions\/14830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}