{"id":8728,"date":"2014-02-18T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T09:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2014-02-18T19:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T09:51:31","slug":"bad-moon-rising-astronomers-explain-full-moon-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8728","title":{"rendered":"Bad moon rising: Astronomers explain &quot;full moon curse&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lunar ranging study carried out using reflectors has long contended with the &#8220;Full-Moon Curse&#8221;, a near-total fading of reflected signals during the full Moon. This Curse is real, and has now been explained.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lunar-ranging-full-moon-curse-retroreflector-relativity\/30853\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lunar-ranging-full-moon-curse-retroreflector-relativity\/30853\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lunar ranging study carried out using reflectors has long contended with the &#8220;Full-Moon Curse&#8221;, a near-total fading of reflected signals during the full Moon. This Curse is real, and has now been explained. http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lunar-ranging-full-moon-curse-retroreflector-relativity\/30853\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}