{"id":1117,"date":"2003-08-20T05:01:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2003\/08\/20\/moon-faze-i-understand\/"},"modified":"2003-08-20T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2003-08-20T05:01:50","slug":"moon-faze-i-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2003\/08\/20\/moon-faze-i-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Faze I understand"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nMoon Faze<\/b><\/p>\n

I understand the July Sun.
\nLike a hired man, it arrives,
\nToils across the day it creates,
\nAnd departs with out remorse.<\/p>\n

The August Moon, however,
\nAppears as a puzzling encounter.
\nShe’s unnoticed and then overwhelms.
\nVitalizing your temperate night.<\/p>\n

– Nathan Cooper (1961 – )\n<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not normally one for poetry, but I was just really happy about his picture. Matt owns a very nice telescope and he has been inspecting the approaching Mars. On his deck Friday, we turned towards the three quarter moon. I was amazed. I have never viewed it through a quality scope before. The details, the craters and seas, were unbelievable. Today’s pic was taken by holding my digital camera up to the telescope lens. On a side note, we were also able to see the polar cap on Mars.
\n …
\nEnough astronomical ranting. The week’s riddle:<\/p>\n

\nHere on Earth it’s always true,
\nThat a day follows a day.
\nBut there’s a place where yesterday
\nAlways follows today.<\/p>\n

Where is that place?<\/p><\/div>\n

The answer to last week’s riddle<\/a>: The letter “H”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moon Faze I understand the July Sun. Like a hired man, it arrives, Toils across the day it creates, And departs with out remorse. The August Moon, however, Appears as a puzzling encounter. She’s unnoticed and then overwhelms. Vitalizing your temperate night. – Nathan Cooper (1961 – ) I’m not normally one for poetry, but … Continue reading “Moon Faze I understand”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}