{"id":13314,"date":"2017-12-20T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T01:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2017-12-20T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T01:18:33","slug":"winter-solstice-comes-on-december-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/12\/winter-solstice-comes-on-december-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter solstice comes on December 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 21, is the date of this year&#8217;s winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 You can read more about it at <em>EarthSky<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/years-shortest-season-starts-with-december-solstice\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/years-shortest-season-starts-with-december-solstice<\/a>. They also have an interesting article describing the difference in sunlight hours at St. Augustine FL and New York City NY at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/solstice-tale-of-two-cities\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/solstice-tale-of-two-cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/December_solstice_diagram-300x214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1609\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/December_solstice_diagram-300x214-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/December_solstice_diagram-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/December_solstice_diagram-300x214-193x138.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 21, is the date of this year&#8217;s winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.\u00a0 You can read more about it at EarthSky at\u00a0https:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/years-shortest-season-starts-with-december-solstice. They also have an interesting article describing the difference in sunlight hours at St. Augustine FL and New York City NY at\u00a0https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/solstice-tale-of-two-cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13315,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions\/13315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}