{"id":1750,"date":"2013-06-24T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2023-06-03T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:01:15","slug":"the-full-moon-watches-old-faithful-erupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"The full moon watches Old Faithful erupt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While shopping in town one day a lady mentioned that if we want to see something really cool, we should go out to Old Faithful the night of the full moon and see the eruption by moonlight.\u00a0 So, we did!\u00a0 Full moon was on June 23rd and it rose about 9:25pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, it wasn&#8217;t even dark yet at that time!<\/p>\n<p>By the time the moon rose enough and it got dark enough for the pictures to come out good,\u00a0we had to wait for the eruption\u00a0predicted to be at\u00a011pm!\u00a0 But, we had fun watching the stars come out and sitting 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