{"id":24217,"date":"2022-06-20T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24217"},"modified":"2022-06-20T23:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T03:07:40","slug":"longest-sunsets-happen-around-the-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/06\/longest-sunsets-happen-around-the-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest sunsets happen around the solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy solstice and happy summer to those of you who follow the astronomical calendar! <em>EarthSky<\/em> has a great article describing <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/tonight\/longest-sunsets-around-solstices\/?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=100c5ab39d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-100c5ab39d-393619445&amp;mc_cid=100c5ab39d&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">why sunsets are the longest near the summer solstice<\/a>. I hope you all get the chance to see some great sunsets and sunrises in the next few weeks. Enjoy every minute!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset.jpg 960w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/darien-sunset-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy solstice and happy summer to those of you who follow the astronomical calendar! EarthSky has a great article describing why sunsets are the longest near the summer solstice. I hope you all get the chance to see some great sunsets and sunrises in the next few weeks. Enjoy every minute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24217","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24218,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24217\/revisions\/24218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}