{"id":3993,"date":"2010-08-25T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2010-08-25T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:30:12","slug":"mars-will-be-the-closest-to-earth-and-swell-to-the-size-of-a-full-moon-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/mars-will-be-the-closest-to-earth-and-swell-to-the-size-of-a-full-moon-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars will be the closest to Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon&#8230;. Wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#65279;For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. &ldquo;NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN,&rdquo; the email declares&#8211;always in caps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/08\/25\/read-this-about-mars-pass-it-on-stop-the-hoax\/\">News flash: It&rsquo;s not true.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/science\/astronomy\/brightmars.asp\">Snopes.com: FALSE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Here are the facts. On August 27, 2010, Mars will be 314 million km from Earth, about as far away as it can get. Mars will shine in the western sky after sunset like a tiny red star of ordinary brightness. If you didn&rsquo;t know it was there, you probably wouldn&rsquo;t notice.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#65279;For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. &ldquo;NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN,&rdquo; the email declares&#8211;always <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/mars-will-be-the-closest-to-earth-and-swell-to-the-size-of-a-full-moon-wrong\/\">[&hellip;]<\/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},"categories":[19],"tags":[253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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