{"id":15912,"date":"2015-12-23T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2015-12-24T05:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T12:32:47","slug":"2015-brings-first-christmas-full-moon-in-38-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/2015-brings-first-christmas-full-moon-in-38-years\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 brings first Christmas full moon in 38 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/smallbluemoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/smallbluemoon.jpg\" alt=\"A New Year's Eve blue moon over Thornton. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/smallbluemoon.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/smallbluemoon-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Christmas 2015 will feature the holiday&#8217;s\u00a0first full moon in 38 years and December 25\u00a0won\u2019t see another for 19 more years.\u00a0 The last Christmas full moon occurred in 1977, the next won\u2019t come until 2034.<\/p>\n<p>The Full Cold Moon, as December\u2019s full moon is called, will occur at 4:11am MST early Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanac.com\/content\/full-moon-names\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a>, \u201cThis is the month when the winter cold fastens its grip and the nights become long and dark. This full Moon is also called the Long Nights Moon by some Native American tribes.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Stay up to date with Thornton\u2019s weather:\u00a0Be sure to \u2018like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and add us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102594403520791765288\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\">Google+<\/a>\u00a0circles<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2015 will feature the holiday&#8217;s\u00a0first full moon in 38 years and December 25\u00a0won\u2019t see another for 19 more years.\u00a0 The last Christmas full moon occurred in 1977, the next won\u2019t come until 2034. The Full Cold Moon, as December\u2019s full moon is called, will occur at 4:11am MST early Christmas morning. According to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/2015-brings-first-christmas-full-moon-in-38-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2015 brings first Christmas full moon in 38 years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15914,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions\/15914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}