{"id":15696,"date":"2012-09-01T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=15696"},"modified":"2012-09-01T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T16:51:42","slug":"blue-moon-casts-its-glow-on-the-swan-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2012\/09\/01\/blue-moon-casts-its-glow-on-the-swan-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Moon Casts Its Glow on the Swan Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VB-DSCF0664\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-15697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/VB-DSCF0664.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ValleyBiz Story |<\/p>\n<p>Last night many looked to the skies for a glimpse of something that only comes around once in a blue moon &#8230; a blue moon.  <\/p>\n<p>We took this picture last night as the moon lit the sky above the Valley.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<em>Click the picture for a larger view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Modern Folklore defines the Blue Moon as &#8220;two full moons in the same month.&#8221;  This is the type of blue moon that occurred last night.  <\/p>\n<p>The Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac defines a Blue Moon as &#8220;the third Full Moon in a season with four Full Moons.&#8221; Last night was not a Blue Moon by this definition.<\/p>\n<p>The most literal meaning of Blue Moon, any phase of moon appearing bluish in color, is even more elusive.  This occurs as a result of smoke or fine dust particles, such as volcanic ash, in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ValleyBiz Story | Last night many looked to the skies for a glimpse of something that only comes around once in a blue moon &#8230; a blue moon. We took this picture last night as the moon lit the sky above the Valley. Click the picture for a larger view. Modern Folklore defines the Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-15696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}