{"id":83757,"date":"2018-12-28T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83757"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:08:14","slug":"weekend-open-thread-252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83757","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83784\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83784\" class=\"wp-image-83784 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/HMCS-FMF-ret-04.jpg?resize=464%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/HMCS-FMF-ret-04.jpg?resize=464%2C333&amp;ssl=1 464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/HMCS-FMF-ret-04.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/HMCS-FMF-ret-04.jpg?resize=768%2C551&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/HMCS-FMF-ret-04.jpg?w=1360&amp;ssl=1 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Courtesy of HMCS FMF ret<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Special thanks to HMCS FMF ret for offering the above moon photo for use on this post. Taking photos of the moon and other astronomy related subjects is a new hobby that he picked up. This is one of his photos.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the moon, someone downloaded a video taken by a satellite observing the moon. By lowering the brightness, and increasing contrast, the video creator exposed a different perspective. The longer you watch the video, the more ground features you&#8217;ll notice:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KI0VIUVkSg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special thanks to HMCS FMF ret for offering the above moon photo for use on this post. Taking photos of the moon and other astronomy related subjects is a new hobby that he picked up. This is one of his photos. Speaking of the moon, someone downloaded a video taken by a satellite observing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-lMV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}