{"id":1027,"date":"2012-01-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/sky\/the-years-latest-sunrise-was-this-morning-really\/"},"modified":"2011-12-06T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T02:26:48","slug":"the-years-latest-sunrise-was-this-morning-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"The year&rsquo;s latest sunrise was this morning &ndash; really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-december-6-13\">The Sky This Week, 2011 December 6 &#8211; 13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>December 7th marks the beginning of the series of phenomena associated with the winter solstice. This is the evening of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest sunset, which in the Washington, DC area occurs at 4:46 pm EST. From this evening onward Old Sol will set a little bit later on successive nights. The change is very incremental at first, but by the time the solstice occurs on the 22nd sunset will be four minutes later. By the end of the year sunset will occur at 4:58 pm. The trade-off comes with <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">the time of latest sunrise. That won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t occur until <strong>January 4th, 2012<\/strong><\/font>, when the Sun peeks over the horizon at 7:27 am. The shortest day of the year still falls halfway between these dates on the solstice itself, marking the astronomical beginning to the winter season. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-december-6-13\">The Sky This Week, 2011 December 6 &#8211; 13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2011 December 6 &#8211; 13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal December 7th marks the beginning of the series of phenomena associated with the winter solstice. This is the evening of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest sunset, which in the Washington, DC area occurs at 4:46 pm EST. From this evening onward Old Sol will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The year&rsquo;s latest sunrise was this morning &ndash; really<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}