{"id":1608,"date":"2014-12-19T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:18:58","slug":"everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you wanted to know about the winter solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winter solstice this year is on December 21.\u00a0 The winter solstice is the date on which the sun is lowest in the sky and the day is the shortest of the year.\u00a0 It marks the start of astronomical winter (remember, climatological winter starts on December 1).\u00a0 But it is not necessarily the day with the earliest sunset due to the orbit of the earth around the sun.\u00a0 Here is a <a title=\"Winter solstice from EarthSky\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=dabd353931-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-dabd353931-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to an article with some fun facts about the winter solstice from <em>EarthSky<\/em>.<\/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=\"December_solstice_diagram-300x214\" 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>The winter solstice this year is on December 21.\u00a0 The winter solstice is the date on which the sun is lowest in the sky and the day is the shortest of the year.\u00a0 It marks the start of astronomical winter (remember, climatological winter starts on December 1).\u00a0 But it is not necessarily the day with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"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=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}