{"id":1807,"date":"2013-08-08T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2013-08-09T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T08:07:30","slug":"festive-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/festive-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/detail\/Shawwal1434WPDtl.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Shawwal Crescent of 1434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/Shawwal1434WP.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawwal Moon &#8211; Eid Al fitr Begins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like clock work the new moon for the month of Shawwal 1434 and the ushering in of Eid Al-Fitr (the Festival of Breaking Fast) began this evening at sunset. \u00a0The moon as beautiful as always was set against a very festively colored sky. \u00a0I am always amazed at how the moon knows how to dress for the occasion!<\/p>\n<p>It was late by the time I got around to preparing this post after having our last fast-breaking dinner bidding farewell to Ramadan this year, exchanging and opening gifts with my family, I was getting pretty tired, but I wanted to leave you all with a more gift-like photo of the moon. \u00a0I waited until the moon was close to setting and I created this 4 photo stitched panoramic of the moon just above the Santa Cruz mountains.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/detail\/Shawwal1434PanoWPDtl.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Shawwal 1434 New Moon Setting \" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/Shawwal1434PanoWP.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Setting New Moon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To all my Muslim readers, Eid Mubarak! \u00a0And to all, Peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like clock work the new moon for the month of Shawwal 1434 and the ushering in of Eid Al-Fitr (the Festival of Breaking Fast) began this evening at sunset.  The moon as beautiful as always was set against a very festively colored sky.  I am always amazed at how the moon knows how to dress for the occasion!<\/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":[6,39],"tags":[41,317,17,462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}