{"id":80,"date":"2011-06-16T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:20:49","slug":"blood-red-moon-over-china-june-16-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/blood-red-moon-over-china-june-16-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Red Moon Over China &#8211; June 16, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate to get a great look at the red moon effect of the total Lunar Eclipse late last evening here in China.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81\" title=\"red-moon-china\" src=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/red-moon-china.jpg\" alt=\"Red Moon Total Lunar Eclipse over China\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/red-moon-china.jpg 340w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/red-moon-china-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/red-moon-china-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Apparently, as the Earth moves in front of the Sun, the Sun&#8217;s light shines through the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and much of the light is filtered out.\u00a0\u00a0 The light that is left, illuminates the moon with a bright red color.<\/p>\n<p>The sight was truly memorable.\u00a0 The late evening was cool and the sky was clear after a day of stormy weather.\u00a0\u00a0 The sky&#8217;s cleared after midnight and reveled this spectacular sight!\u00a0\u00a0 Our understanding is this was the longest lasting eclipse in a more then a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate to get a great look at the red moon effect of the total Lunar Eclipse late last evening here in China. Apparently, as the Earth moves in front of the Sun, the Sun&#8217;s light shines through the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/blood-red-moon-over-china-june-16-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,159,25,24],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-astronomy","tag-china","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-red-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}