{"id":568,"date":"2008-10-11T00:39:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T04:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2008-10-17T04:59:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T08:59:17","slug":"shine-on-harvest-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Shine on Harvest Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I know you are humming that song right now if you remember it.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday morning, I was humming it, too. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I walk on the Lake Murray Dam at seven each morning with a friend.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday morning the moon was big and full&#8230;shining strongly on the lovely calm waters.\u00c2\u00a0 We both noticed that it was not there in that same position the morning before and figured it might have something to do with the Autumn Equinox. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">History has it that the full moon nearest to the Autumn Equinox is called the &#8216;Harvest Moon&#8217;. This is because for several nights it appears large and bright in the early evening, bringing farmers valuable extra time to gather in their harvest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">I know one thing, yesterday morning it gave the fishermen plenty of light to help them with their fishing. It was so bright that for almost that whole hour it was brighter than the sun&#8230;at least to the naked eye.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Seeing that moon makes me think that fall is coming fast, the leaves will soon be changing, and I need to go to the fair one more time before it leaves town.\u00c2\u00a0 It also makes me think I need to start planning a camping trip to my favorite log cabin in Boone, NC before they close for the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not long before I walk this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see if the moon is there again.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><strong><em>My wish for you today<\/em><\/strong> is that you take a glimpse at that moon if you get a chance to.\u00c2\u00a0 Savor the moment while you can and hum that little tune &#8211; Shine on Harvest Moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you are humming that song right now if you remember it.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday morning, I was humming it, too. \u00c2\u00a0 I walk on the Lake Murray Dam at seven each morning with a friend.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday morning the moon was big and full&#8230;shining strongly on the lovely calm waters.\u00c2\u00a0 We both noticed that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}