{"id":1276,"date":"2011-08-30T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T06:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2011-08-30T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T06:06:06","slug":"alone-again-but-in-good-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/alone-again-but-in-good-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone Again &#8211; But in Good Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the followup to last night&#8217;s moon sighting trip.  Only this time no one was with me, well not entirely true as I had two of my usual four assistants with me.  It did not take us long to see the moon and as always it was stunning.<\/p>\n<p>No noise, no distractions, not even a breeze rustling the grass.  All we heard were the faint screes of red-tailed hawk in the distance.  We stayed nearly 45 minutes watching the moon slowly sink in the sky and vanish below the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>We bid farewell to Ramadan, a most blessed time of the year, and hoped that we would live long enough to host it once again in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>To all my Muslim readers I wish all of you a heartfelt <strong><em>Eid Mubarak!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; the moon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/detail\/Shawwal1432dtl.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shawwal 1432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/Shawwal1432.jpg\" alt=\"Crescent Moon of Shawwal 1432\" width=\"348\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawwal 1432<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Peace to you All.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the followup to last night&#8217;s moon sighting trip. Only this time no one was with me, well not entirely true as I had two of my usual four assistants with me. It did not take us long to see the moon and as always it was stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6,4,39],"tags":[41,192,317,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}