{"id":47406,"date":"2025-09-22T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2025\/09\/22\/was-this-venus.html"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:55:28","slug":"was-this-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2025\/09\/22\/was-this-venus.html","title":{"rendered":"Was This Venus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t even know. I don&#8217;t remember taking this picture at 5:50am on Friday, nor do I recall thinking the moon looked at all unusual. But it looks like some kind of planetary eclipse or alignment. Or maybe someonejust happened to have thrown a giant coaster between the moon and me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"47404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2025\/09\/22\/was-this-venus.html\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?fit=1126%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1126,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-S908U1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1758261009&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.25&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20250919_0550052629948133255406630\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?fit=577%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=577%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=577%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 577w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=768%2C1364&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=865%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 865w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?resize=1080%2C1918&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_0550052629948133255406630.jpg?w=1126&amp;ssl=1 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know. I don&#8217;t remember taking this picture at 5:50am on Friday, nor do I recall thinking the moon looked at all unusual. But it looks like some kind of planetary eclipse or alignment. Or maybe someonejust happened to have thrown a giant coaster between the moon and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_055005-scaled.jpg?fit=1441%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-ckC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47407,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47406\/revisions\/47407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}