{"id":5583,"date":"2015-12-21T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2015-12-21T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T00:10:41","slug":"happy-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/12\/happy-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy winter solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 21, the winter solstice will occur AT 11:48 pm EST. \u00a0Historically this marks the shortest day of the year and the start of astronomical winter (meteorological winter already started on December 1). \u00a0You can read more about it at <em>EarthSky<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice?utm_source=EarthSky%20News&amp;utm_campaign=a3cfd5468f-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-a3cfd5468f-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, including links to what a solstice is and why the latest sunrise date does not correspond with the winter solstice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5584\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-300x300.png\" alt=\"Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 21, the winter solstice will occur AT 11:48 pm EST. \u00a0Historically this marks the shortest day of the year and the start of astronomical winter (meteorological winter already started on December 1). \u00a0You can read more about it at EarthSky here, including links to what a solstice is and why the latest sunrise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","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\/5583","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=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}