{"id":2393,"date":"2015-03-20T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:10:36","slug":"happy-vernal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/03\/happy-vernal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy vernal equinox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the first day of astronomical spring (remember, meteorological spring started on March 1). \u00a0This is the vernal equinox, when the Northern Hemisphere starts to tilt towards the sun instead of away, and days become longer and the sun higher in the sky. \u00a0You can read all about it at EarthSky <a title=\"Vernal equinox\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-vernal-or-spring-equinox?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=167db683e8-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-167db683e8-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/earth_lighting_equinox_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2394\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/earth_lighting_equinox_300-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Source: EarthSky\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/earth_lighting_equinox_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/03\/earth_lighting_equinox_300-194x138.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: EarthSky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the first day of astronomical spring (remember, meteorological spring started on March 1). \u00a0This is the vernal equinox, when the Northern Hemisphere starts to tilt towards the sun instead of away, and days become longer and the sun higher in the sky. \u00a0You can read all about it at EarthSky here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","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\/2393","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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}