{"id":2835,"date":"2008-12-01T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2008-12-01T23:09:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T15:09:37","slug":"smiling-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/i-was-here\/2008\/12\/01\/smiling-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiling Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking Remo tonight and managed to capture this picture:<\/p>\n&#8221;]<a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc_0001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"lightbox[2835]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2836\" title=\"Smiling Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc_0001-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"This rare image of a smiley moon only appears five years once\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc_0001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc_0001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/smiley-face-will-appear-in-tonights-sky-20081130-6np2.html\" target=\"_blank\">rare event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday night Venus, Jupiter and a three-day-old crescent Moon, will appear as a smiley face above the western horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual astronomical event will be close enough to see with the naked eye, any time from 9pm onwards.<\/p>\n<p>But if you miss it, you will have to wait another five years before the formation appears again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the photo above, the left &#8220;eye&#8221; is not so clear. This picture was taken at 8pm Malaysian time.<\/p>\n<p>Gods smiling at us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking Remo tonight and managed to capture this picture: This is a rare event: On Monday night Venus, Jupiter and a three-day-old crescent Moon, will appear as a smiley face above the western horizon. The unusual astronomical event will be close enough to see with the naked eye, any time from 9pm onwards. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-was-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}