{"id":18616,"date":"2019-12-21T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T12:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=18616"},"modified":"2019-12-21T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T12:44:39","slug":"today-is-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/12\/today-is-the-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this evening we will officially be at the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. You can read more about this year&#8217;s event at the links below. For astronomy types, it marks the beginning of winter.<\/p>\n<p><em>EarthSky<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=07488661a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-07488661a6-393619445\">The December solstice is coming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Vox<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2019\/12\/18\/21024709\/winter-solstice-2019?fbclid=IwAR14xfa_JBHa1kLajc9PJJsLT7n3ZQ5qr7U6ojhEc4SwuTE5M-5NO60Q-1Y\">Ten things to know about the shortest day of the year<\/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>Late this evening we will officially be at the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. You can read more about this year&#8217;s event at the links below. For astronomy types, it marks the beginning of winter. EarthSky: The December solstice is coming Vox: Ten things to know about the [&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-18616","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\/18616","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=18616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18617,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions\/18617"}],"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=18616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}