{"id":7888,"date":"2025-01-05T21:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T04:38:42","slug":"omigosh-its-2025-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/omigosh-its-2025-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Omigosh &#8212; It&#8217;s 2025 Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7889\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon.jpg 800w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-waxing-crescent-moon-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Moon has nothing to do with the title, but we are getting queued up for the first full moon of 2025 in Arizona on June 13, 2025. I took the image above this evening with my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canon_EOS_100D\" target=\"_blank\">Canon SL1<\/a> set to shutter priority 1\/1000 sec. and F5.6. The focal length was about 250 mm through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/shop\/p\/ef-s-55-250mm-f-4-5-6-is-stm?color=Black&#038;type=New\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EF-S55-250mm zoom lens<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, we&#8217;re late in wishing everybody a happy 2025, but we can do it now, so there it is.<\/p>\n<p>Our plans for the new year aren&#8217;t very resolute, but they will probably include a longer voyage with the <a href=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/our-new-rv-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\">motorhome<\/a> to the lands of our ancestors with some interesting attractions along the route(s). We may also go all the way to the east coast which will be a first for us in the big rig.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?s=eclipse\" target=\"_blank\">eclipses<\/a> this time around, but we will be on the lookout for interesting photo ops and we plan to blog about it when we&#8217;re underway.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers in 2025 and God Bless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the Moon has nothing to do with the title, but we are getting queued up for the first full moon of 2025 in Arizona&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,44,3,34,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-astronomy","category-photography","category-retirement","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}