{"id":1603,"date":"2016-11-15T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1603-mooning-out-on-the-hype.html"},"modified":"2016-11-16T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:44:15","slug":"mooning-out-on-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1603-mooning-out-on-the-hype.html","title":{"rendered":"Mooning Out on the Hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2216 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1434-_MG_1089.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere was an amazing amount of media hype leading up to last night&#8217;s Supermoon.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom out of nowhere came hundreds of experts espousing facts and figures.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere was talk of the best vantage locations, there were strong suggestions that you just can&#8217;t miss it, the likes of which will not been seen again for another &#8230; years!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThen out of the woodwork came the wet blankets calling us all sheep for being led by the hype to stand out in the cold evening to see this &#8216;amazing&#8217; Supermoon for ourselves.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no fan of over-the-top hype but in this case I think it was fantastic how so many people took notice, took the time and took photographs last night.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOur moon is one of the most beautiful objects in the night&#8217;s sky regardless of its phase or size and if takes a heap of Supermoon hype to draw attention to it, that can only be a good thing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Mooning Out on the Hype&#8217; 1\/200s f\/9 ISO160 300mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; There was an amazing amount of media hype leading up to last night&#8217;s Supermoon. From out of nowhere came hundreds of experts espousing facts and figures. There was talk of the best vantage locations, there were strong suggestions that you just can&#8217;t miss it, the likes of which will not been &#8230; <a title=\"Mooning Out on the Hype\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1603-mooning-out-on-the-hype.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mooning Out on the Hype\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}