{"id":66,"date":"2006-05-24T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-05-24T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T22:27:11","slug":"earthshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Earthshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/MoonandVenus0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/RealAudio\/Repairforfluteandbassoon.m3u\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/mscblue.jpg\"\"alt=\"listen to Phos Hilaron\"\/><font color=#330033>&#8230;listen<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/Repairpg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#330033>&#8230;info about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#417B68>To accompany this dancing pair, click on the blue music icon above to hear a clip from my flute and basssoon duet &#8220;Re:pair.&#8221;<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>4:53 a.m., 5\/24\/06.<br \/>\nI finished my work\/procrastination\/work\/puttering for the night and walked into the living room to place a few packages of orders by the front door for the next day&#8217;s mail pickup.<br \/>\nA bright light caught my eye.<br \/>\nTurning toward the east-facing windows, this is what I saw: our moon and Venus, in a lovely pas de deux above the Santa Monica bay.<br \/>\nThe thin crescent of what&#8217;s left of that green cheese couldn&#8217;t hide the rest of its orb: this wonderful sight is called earthshine. Sunlight bounces off our planet and reflects against the face of the moon. And then back again, to my face. Beaming.<br \/>\nI padded out to the deck and, lacking a tripod, placed my little camera on the top of the hot tub cover for steadiness.<br \/>\nSnap. snap.<br \/>\nAhhhh.<br \/>\nDancing the morning away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}