{"id":165,"date":"2006-10-06T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-10-06T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T20:42:05","slug":"frivolous-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" title=\"Full Moon\" alt=\"Full Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/a52.g.akamaitech.net\/f\/52\/827\/1d\/www.space.com\/images\/ig140_05_fullmoonfever.jpg\" \/>Tonight&#8217;s full moon will appear large and in charge according to <a title=\"Space.com\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/061006_full_moon.html\">Space.com<\/a>, being the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox.  It&#8217;s set to rise at 6:36 p.m. here in the beautiful Atomic City.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LiveScience\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mysteries\/061006_moon_crazy.html\">LiveScience<\/a> claims that there&#8217;s no proof that full moons make people crazy&#8230; but they obviously haven&#8217;t met the people I know.  Or worked the third shift at the Krystal on Cumberland Avenue, as I did for a little while as a college student.<\/p>\n<p>My obstetrician swore that there were more babies born during a full moon, but I haven&#8217;t seen any statistics on it.  He was right about everything else, so why not?<\/p>\n<p>Still though, it&#8217;s pretty.  It will be especially pretty tonight, since last night&#8217;s thunderstorms thoroughly cleansed the air and the colors and shadows are so sharp and crisp, it feels as though I&#8217;m wearing my glasses even when I&#8217;m not.  It&#8217;s a good night to take the kids out for a moonlight picnic, and explain the great mysteries of physics like <a title=\"Mysteries of the Moon\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mysteries\/060907_moon_big.html\">why the moon appears larger on the horizon<\/a> &#8212; even though it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out these <a title=\"top 10 moon facts\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/top_10_cool_moon_facts-1.html\">10 cool moon facts<\/a> to impress them &#8212; starting with the fact that the moon is actually escaping.  How&#8217;s that for the start of a Halloween tale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s full moon will appear large and in charge according to Space.com, being the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox. It&#8217;s set to rise at 6:36 p.m. here in the beautiful Atomic City. LiveScience claims that there&#8217;s no proof &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}