{"id":126,"date":"2005-06-23T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=126"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"summer-moon-illusion-biggest-for-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/summer-moon-illusion-biggest-for-18-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Moon Illusion &#8211; biggest for 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>NASA &#8211; Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You&#8217;ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth&#8217;s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something&#8217;s wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It&#8217;s huge!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just experienced the Moon Illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sky watchers have known this for thousands of years: moons hanging low in the sky look unnaturally big. Cameras don&#8217;t see it, but our eyes do. It&#8217;s a real illusion.<\/p>\n<p>This week?s full moon occurs on June 22nd, barely a day after the summer solstice on June 21st&#8211;perfect timing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2005\/20jun_moonillusion.htm\">Moon Illusion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA &#8211; Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You&#8217;ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth&#8217;s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something&#8217;s wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It&#8217;s huge! You&#8217;ve just experienced the Moon Illusion.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/summer-moon-illusion-biggest-for-18-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Moon Illusion &#8211; biggest for 18 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}