{"id":173,"date":"2004-10-21T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=173"},"modified":"2005-03-09T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T18:26:20","slug":"october-red-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/10\/october-red-lunar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"October Red Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2004\/13oct_lunareclipse.htm\">October Lunar Eclipse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>October 13, 2004: According to folklore, October&#8217;s full moon is called the &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; or sometimes the &#8220;Blood Moon.&#8221; It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood. <\/p>\n<p>The Blood Moon rises this year on Wednesday, Oct. 27th. At first it will seem pale and cold, as usual. And then &#8230; blood red.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lunar eclipse. Beginning at 9:14 p.m. EDT (6:14 p.m. PDT), the moon will glide through Earth&#8217;s shadow for more than three hours. Observers on every continent (map) except Australia can see the event: The pale-white moon will turn pumpkin orange as it plunges into shadow, becoming eerie red during totality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2004\/13oct_lunareclipse.htm\">Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October Lunar Eclipse October 13, 2004: According to folklore, October&#8217;s full moon is called the &#8220;Hunter&#8217;s Moon&#8221; or sometimes the &#8220;Blood Moon.&#8221; It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the wood. The Blood Moon rises this year on Wednesday, Oct. 27th. At&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/10\/october-red-lunar-eclipse\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}