{"id":1755,"date":"2012-09-01T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:33:57","slug":"the-moons-tribute-to-neil-armstong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"The Moon&#8217;s Tribute to Neil Armstong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was veritable party of flashing cameras last night at the beach, all of us hoping to capture some spectacular image of the well-publicized &#8216;Blue Moon&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0This is the best I could do&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1756\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1756\" title=\"2012-08-14 10.45.36\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.45.36.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s when there are 2 full moons in one month&#8230;&#8221; said one wizened fellow to another as they sat sentinel-like on the stone wall overlooking marsh grass and feeding gulls. I overheard them as I passed below, picking my away across the low-tide stretch, leaping over piles of dubious looking Long Island Sound flotsam and jetsam.<\/p>\n<p>And I came across this weird tide pattern &#8211; like a quiet echo of the planet now rising on the horizon. \u00a0The evening, with this rare second-showing of luna and this strange, perfect circle in the marsh flats, felt like a sweet nod to the recent death of the first man to step and prance across that very distant rock-scape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1759\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1759\" title=\"2012-08-14 10.46.01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-08-14-10.46.01.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mystical Tide Mark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was veritable party of flashing cameras last night at the beach, all of us hoping to capture some spectacular image of the well-publicized &#8216;Blue Moon&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0This is the best I could do&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s when there are 2 full moons in one month&#8230;&#8221; said one wizened fellow to another as they sat sentinel-like on the stone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Moon&#8217;s Tribute to Neil Armstong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[44,29,38,43,12,30,27],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-beach","tag-healing","tag-light","tag-moon","tag-nature","tag-norwalk","tag-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}