{"id":38171,"date":"2015-12-24T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38171"},"modified":"2015-12-24T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T03:04:03","slug":"first-christmas-full-moon-in-nearly-40-years-starts-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/12\/first-christmas-full-moon-in-nearly-40-years-starts-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"First Christmas Full Moon <br>In Nearly 40 Years Starts Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38172\" title=\"full-moon\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/full-moon-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/full-moon-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/full-moon.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Santa&#8217;s sleigh won&#8217;t be the only object in the sky tonight.<\/p>\n<p>A bright full moon, the first on Christmas since 1977, will also be on display, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s nothing magical about this holiday light show, says CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. Just science.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The moon cycles every 29.5 days, meaning every 29.5 days, there will be a full moon. &#8230; So, on average, every 29.5 years, a full moon will land on December 25,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just makes Santa&#8217;s job easier, and Rudolf can stay home,&#8221; Myers says.<\/p>\n<p>The last time we had a full Christmas moon was in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the moon, NASA says it will peak at 6:11 a.m. ET on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the display while it lasts. The next Christmas full moon won&#8217;t come around until 2034, NASA says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa&#8217;s sleigh won&#8217;t be the only object in the sky tonight. A bright full moon, the first on Christmas since 1977, will also be on display, weather permitting. But there&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}