{"id":1391,"date":"2011-03-20T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2011-03-20T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:31:54","slug":"the-super-moon-and-the-vernal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"THE SUPER MOON AND  THE VERNAL EQUINOX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1391 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/moon-3-19-11-32464.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/moon-3-19-11-32464-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1392\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1392'>\n\t\t\t\tmoon rising\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/moon-3-19-11-32470.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/moon-3-19-11-32470-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1393\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1393'>\n\t\t\t\tsuper moon\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washington-st-3-19-11-32422.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washington-st-3-19-11-32422-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1394\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1394'>\n\t\t\t\tsigns of spring\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washington-st-3-19-11-32439.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/washington-st-3-19-11-32439-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1395\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1395'>\n\t\t\t\tseagulls playing\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This was a big weekend. It is the last day of winter\/first day of spring eg: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/calendar\/march-equinox.html\">Vernal Equinox<\/a>.Night and day are equal in length. Last night the well publicized &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2011\/03\/110319-supermoon-full-moon-earth-science-space-biggest-closest-brightest\/\">Super Moon<\/a>&#8221; rose in the East. It really lived up to the billing. We went to the beach to watch it rise, we were not alone, which should hardly be a surprise, but I never imagined there would be so many people.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrologyzone.com\/forecasts\/monthly\/virgo_full.php\">Virgo&#8217;<\/a>s, it may be a disturbing weekend, all of this activity coinciding.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I spent this lovely day inside listening to Bill Gladstone at the well presented North Sails tactics seminar \u00a0at the Wickford Yacht Club, along with Chris Wick and Lee Reichart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1396\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1399\" href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?attachment_id=1399\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1399\" title=\"north u 3 20 11  32523\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/north-u-3-20-11-32523.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bill gladstone at wickford yacht club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a big weekend. It is the last day of winter\/first day of spring eg: the Vernal Equinox.Night and day are equal in length. Last night the well publicized &#8220;Super Moon&#8221; rose in the East. It really lived up to the billing. We went to the beach to watch it rise, we were not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE SUPER MOON AND  THE VERNAL EQUINOX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[652,650,651],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-north-sails-seminar","tag-super-moon","tag-vernal-equinox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}