{"id":3927619,"date":"2026-08-22T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/near-total-lunar-eclipse-is-coming-up-with-the-americas-in-prime-position\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:00:49","slug":"near-total-lunar-eclipse-is-coming-up-with-the-americas-in-prime-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/near-total-lunar-eclipse-is-coming-up-with-the-americas-in-prime-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Now it&#8217;s the moon&#8217;s turn to pull a disappearing act. After being shut out of this month&#8217;s total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth&#8217;s shadow briefly envelops the moon. Almost the entire lunar surface will be masked Thursday night into Friday\u2014a whopping 96%\u2014making this an especially deep partial eclipse.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-total-lunar-eclipse-americas-prime.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now it&#8217;s the moon&#8217;s turn to pull a disappearing act. After being shut out of this month&#8217;s total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth&#8217;s shadow briefly envelops the moon. Almost the entire lunar surface will be masked Thursday night into Friday\u2014a whopping 96%\u2014making this an especially [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}