{"id":14179,"date":"2018-04-09T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2018-04-09T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:55:03","slug":"why-rainbows-are-curved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/why-rainbows-are-curved\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why rainbows are curved&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EarthSky<\/em> has an interesting post this week on the physics of rainbows and why they appear to be curved. If you are in an aircraft, it is possible to see a rainbow as a full circle, but usually on the earth&#8217;s surface we only see part of the arc. You can read the details <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/what-gives-rainbows-their-curved-shape?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=6cb0073275-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-6cb0073275-393619445\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2783\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow-138x138.jpg 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/double-double-rainbow.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Amanda Curtis\/Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarthSky has an interesting post this week on the physics of rainbows and why they appear to be curved. If you are in an aircraft, it is possible to see a rainbow as a full circle, but usually on the earth&#8217;s surface we only see part of the arc. You can read the details here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","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=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14180,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}