{"id":18718,"date":"2019-01-21T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:51:29","slug":"a-beautiful-big-moon-over-the-river-thames-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-beautiful-big-moon-over-the-river-thames-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful big Moon over the River Thames &#8211; in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Moon&#8217;s closer proximity to the Earth made for a spectacular sunset over the River Thames\u00a0yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here the Moon can be seen rising behind Blackfriars Bridge, with the &#8216;Cheesegrater&#8217; skyscraper to the right.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night the Moon would appear a stunning shade of red due to a lunar eclipse. I got up in the middle of the night to take a look, but London&#8217;s skies were filled by a chilly mist and clouds obscuring what would have been a spectacular sight. Damn!<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has some photos of what some people were lucky enough to see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-46943592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In pictures: &#8216;Super blood wolf moon&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-04.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-05.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-06.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-07.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-08.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/big-moon-london-09.jpg\" alt=\"A big Moon over the River Thames - in photos\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/the-river-thames-photos-and-stories.323878\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join in with the discussion about London and the Thames here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon&#8217;s closer proximity to the Earth made for a spectacular sunset over the River Thames\u00a0yesterday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,456,17,193],"tags":[10,408,1195,2046,48],"class_list":["post-18718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-london","tag-moon","tag-photos","tag-super-blood-wolf-moon","tag-thames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/big-moon-london-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4RU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18720,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions\/18720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}