{"id":3367,"date":"2013-03-29T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:44:03","slug":"paschal-moon-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Paschal Moon, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/eastermoon.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Every Easter, the full moon shines bright in the early Spring skies.  The Church <a href=\"http:\/\/christianity.about.com\/od\/faqhelpdesk\/qt\/whyeasterchange.htm\">designed it<\/a> that way. In some ways the &#8220;Paschal Moon&#8221; custom for setting the date of Easter relates to the lunar cycles that determined the Passover celebration for early Judaism; in some ways it helped ancient pilgrims going to holy sites for Holy Week by <a href=\"http:\/\/starryskies.com\/articles\/dln\/4-00\/easter.moon.html\">making their journeys a bit safer<\/a>; and in some ways there is spiritual significance, e.g. Christ&#8217;s resurrection reflecting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowsworld.org\/node\/4615\">turning of winter into spring <\/a>and the light of God shining in the darkness.  <\/p>\n<p>That all may well be.  For now, though, I&#8217;ll just take the Zen view and simply enjoy the bright moon shining through the clouds on a cool but no longer freezing night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Easter, the full moon shines bright in the early Spring skies. The Church designed it that way. In some ways the &#8220;Paschal Moon&#8221; custom for setting the date of Easter relates to the lunar cycles that determined the Passover celebration for early Judaism; in some ways it helped ancient pilgrims going to holy sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}