{"id":19114,"date":"2020-03-19T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19114"},"modified":"2020-03-19T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T02:18:12","slug":"happy-astronomical-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/03\/happy-astronomical-spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy astronomical spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today marks the start of astronomical spring (remember, climatological spring started on March 1). It is also known as the vernal equinox because days and nights are of equal length. It&#8217;s the earliest start to spring in well over 100 years because of the leap year and other factors. You can read more at <em>EarthSky<\/em> at  <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons.jpg 320w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/peach-blossoms-commons-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Andrea Pavanello, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the start of astronomical spring (remember, climatological spring started on March 1). It is also known as the vernal equinox because days and nights are of equal length. It&#8217;s the earliest start to spring in well over 100 years because of the leap year and other factors. You can read more at EarthSky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19114","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\/19114","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=19114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19115,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions\/19115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}