{"id":10441,"date":"2017-03-19T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2017-03-19T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:57:49","slug":"vernal-equinox-arrives-on-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/vernal-equinox-arrives-on-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernal equinox arrives on March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday March 20 marks the beginning of astronomical spring for the Northern Hemisphere. \u00a0Remember that for climatologists, spring begins on March 1, so we are already three weeks into spring from a weather standpoint! \u00a0You can read more about the vernal equinox at <em>EarthSky<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fullsite+%28EarthSky%29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4498\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe-151x138.jpg 151w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/equinox-globe.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday March 20 marks the beginning of astronomical spring for the Northern Hemisphere. \u00a0Remember that for climatologists, spring begins on March 1, so we are already three weeks into spring from a weather standpoint! \u00a0You can read more about the vernal equinox at EarthSky here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}