{"id":3437,"date":"2026-03-19T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:52:53","slug":"first-record-of-solar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"First Record of Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ptolemy in AD 72 made the first recorded reference to a lunar eclipse<\/strong>. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth passes between the sun and the moon. At that time the earth&#8217;s shadow falls on the moon, causing the eclipse. Lunar eclipses occur between four and seven times a year. Children can learn more about lunar eclipses at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaKIDSen\/SEMQNAWJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lunar Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ptolemy in AD 72 made the first recorded reference to a lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth passes between the sun and the moon. At that time the earth&#8217;s shadow falls on the moon, causing the eclipse. Lunar eclipses occur between four and seven times a year. Children can learn more about <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3437' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5396,3482,3483,3160,3481],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-ad-72","tag-first-reference-to-lunar-eclipse","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-march-19","tag-ptolemy","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29274,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/29274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}