{"id":7570,"date":"2023-09-01T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2023-09-01T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:27:08","slug":"photos-of-super-blue-moon-kiwis-react-to-lunar-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7570","title":{"rendered":"Photos of super blue moon: Kiwis react to lunar wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Keen Kiwi photographers have snapped shots of a stunning, rare super blue moonrise &#8211; the first time the astronomical phenomenon has graced our skies in 14 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The spectacular sight of a supermoon happens about three or four times a year when the moon is full and is as close to the Earth as it can get. On Thursday night it was about 20,000km closer than normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When two full moons land in the same calendar month the second instance is known as a blue moon. Thursday night was the second full moon and a supermoon, hence a super blue moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Photographs show a giant moon, almost ablaze with a golden hue peering from behind Auckland City Hospital, slowly rising above the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keen Kiwi photographers have snapped shots of a stunning, rare super blue moonrise &#8211; the first time the astronomical phenomenon has graced our skies in 14 years. The spectacular sight of a supermoon happens about three or four times a year when the moon is full and is as close to the Earth as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}