{"id":119,"date":"2008-11-30T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-12-13T22:52:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T02:52:05","slug":"a-conjunction-if-you-can-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"A Conjunction, If You Can See It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol rode a Canadair regional jet home yesterday, and I am mysteriously                a <i>much<\/i> happier man. (We have not been apart for this long                in one chunk since she was in grad school in Minnesota in 1976.)                I have not in consequence been much inclined to write on Contra                today, but I must mention something that will be worth looking for:                A three-way conjunction of Venus, Jupiter, and the crescent Moon                that will be potentially visible today and especially tomorrow.                See it if you can, in the west just after sunset. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">Spaceweather                has some details<\/a>. I would have looked tonight but it&apos;s sleeting                here in Colorado Springs, and I got word from Gretchen that there                is considerable sympathy sleet in Chicago this evening as well.                But if it&apos;s clear where you are tonight or tomorrow (or the day                after, for that matter) don&apos;t miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol rode a Canadair regional jet home yesterday, and I am mysteriously a much happier man. (We have not been apart for this long in one chunk since she was in grad school in Minnesota in 1976.) I have not in consequence been much inclined to write on Contra today, but I must mention something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}