{"id":13995,"date":"2018-03-20T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:28:32","slug":"happy-astronomical-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/03\/happy-astronomical-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy astronomical spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though spring is already almost three weeks old for climatologists, today is the official start of astronomical spring. <em>EarthSky<\/em> has a good story about the March equinox (which means &#8220;equal night&#8221;).\u00a0 You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=30b4bc7671-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-30b4bc7671-393619445\">here<\/a>. They have a second story about whether days and nights are equal at the equinox <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/are-day-and-night-exactly-equal-at-the-equinox?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=30b4bc7671-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-30b4bc7671-393619445\">here<\/a>. (Spoiler alert&#8211;they are not.)<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though spring is already almost three weeks old for climatologists, today is the official start of astronomical spring. EarthSky has a good story about the March equinox (which means &#8220;equal night&#8221;).\u00a0 You can read it here. They have a second story about whether days and nights are equal at the equinox here. (Spoiler alert&#8211;they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","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=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13996,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/13996"}],"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=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}