{"id":16302,"date":"2018-12-21T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:54:18","slug":"astronomical-winter-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/12\/astronomical-winter-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical winter begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the winter solstice, when we experience the shortest day of the year. This is because of the tilt of the earth&#8217;s axis of rotation relative to our orbit around the sun. So if you celebrate the winter astronomically, then today is the first day of winter. If you are a climatologist like me, then winter began on December 1. Either way, happy winter!<\/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>Today marks the winter solstice, when we experience the shortest day of the year. This is because of the tilt of the earth&#8217;s axis of rotation relative to our orbit around the sun. So if you celebrate the winter astronomically, then today is the first day of winter. If you are a climatologist like me, [&hellip;]<\/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-16302","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\/16302","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=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16303,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/16303"}],"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=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}