{"id":18146,"date":"2020-12-10T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=18146"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:36:43","slug":"moon-halo-27-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=18146","title":{"rendered":"Moon Halo: 27 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/12\/moon_halo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/12\/p1680030_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1680030_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1680030_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow I spent my whole life without ever seeing such a thing, but apparently it's <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/22%C2%B0_halo\">not uncommon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 22\u00b0 halo is an optical phenomenon that belongs to the family of ice-crystal halos. Its form is a ring with an apparent radius of approximately 22\u00b0 around the Sun or Moon. When visible around the Moon, it is called a moon ring or winter halo. It forms as direct sunlight or moonlight is refracted in millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.[1] The halo appears large; its radius is roughly the length of an outstretched hand at arm's length.[2] A 22\u00b0 halo may be visible on as many as 100 days per year \u2013 much more frequently than rainbows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow I still doubt that \"more frequently than rainbows\" part..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I spent my whole life without ever seeing such a thing, but apparently it's not uncommon: A 22\u00b0 halo is an optical phenomenon that belongs to the family of ice-crystal halos. Its form is a ring with an apparent radius of approximately 22\u00b0 around the Sun or Moon. When visible around the Moon, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707,1708],"tags":[6,3156,3155,16,196],"class_list":["post-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","category-commentary","tag-grand-strand","tag-moon","tag-natural-phenomena","tag-out-of-area","tag-pawleys-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}