{"id":859,"date":"2007-06-28T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/28\/expect-to-see-a-blue-moon-on-june-30\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T13:50:40","slug":"expect-to-see-a-blue-moon-on-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/06\/28\/expect-to-see-a-blue-moon-on-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect to see a &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; on June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in astronomy, Saturday (June 30) could be a landmark day, for they will be in a position to cite a `Blue Moon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the &#8220;Blue moon&#8221; is a quirky astronomical term used to describe the second full moon in a calendar month, an event which occurs only once every two and a half years.But it hasn&#8217;t always been this way. Up until the 1940s, the term blue moon was used to describe the third full moon in a season.However you define it, a blue moon isn&#8217;t a common event. On average they occur once every two and a half years, which probably led to the term &#8216;once in a blue moon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So if the moon doesn&#8217;t change colour, why use the term &#8216;blue&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Read More Abt it @ <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/070625\/139\/6hcse.html\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those interested in astronomy, Saturday (June 30) could be a landmark day, for they will be in a position to cite a `Blue Moon&#8217;. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the &#8220;Blue moon&#8221; is a quirky astronomical term used to describe the second full moon in a calendar month, an event which occurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-inventions-discoveries","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}