{"id":8047,"date":"2011-10-14T06:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2011-10-14T06:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:40:29","slug":"chasing-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111014-8047.htm","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long day in Grand Island done, I pointed my car towards home, eager to get back to Columbus.<\/p>\n

But as soon as I turned east, I saw a gorgeous almost-full-penny moon.<\/p>\n

Do you know what I’m talking about? A moon that glows with coppery tones, where you can almost see Abraham Lincoln’s profile in its enormous glistening glory?<\/p>\n

My eyes twitched to the camera bag sitting beside me, my hands thrummed the steering wheel restlessly.<\/p>\n

I wanted a picture of this–except the construction on the road between Grand Island and Central City left me with no place to turn off.<\/p>\n

I determined to take a detour through Central City. I’d find a country road; stop and take some pictures before rejoining Highway 30 a little further along.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t count on was the difficulty of finding country road turn-offs after dark. <\/p>\n

I crossed the Platte River and knew I needed to turn east again soon (since I was traveling south and my destination was northeast). Finding a little highway, I turned off on it. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this little highway had no shoulders for pulling over to take pictures–so I kept driving, sure I’d find a north-leading road soon. <\/p>\n

The penny moon rose and became a dime, not anywhere near as enthralling.<\/p>\n

I drove further, wondering at my folly–chasing the moon.<\/p>\n

My usual route looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/p>\n

Instead, last evening’s trip looked more like this:<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/p>\n

Dozens of extra miles, at least a half hour extra drive time.<\/p>\n

No pictures to show for it.<\/p>\n

An evening chasing the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long day in Grand Island done, I pointed my car towards home, eager to get back to Columbus. But as soon as I turned east, I saw a gorgeous almost-full-penny moon. Do you know what I’m talking about? A moon that glows with coppery tones, where you can almost see Abraham Lincoln’s profile in … Read more Chasing the Moon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}