{"id":1436,"date":"2013-07-04T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:44:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:44:01","slug":"summer-slows-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Summer slows down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2013-july-2-9\">The Sky This Week, 2013 July 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earth passes aphelion, its most distant point from the Sun, on the 5th at 10:44 am EDT. At this time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be 152,097,413 kilometers (94,508,951 miles) from Old Sol. Since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at our most distant from the day-star we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re moving at our slowest orbital velocity for the year. This causes the Northern Hemisphere summer season to last a bit longer than the other three. That may be a small consolation to think about once we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the grip of winter!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2013-july-2-9\">The Sky This Week, 2013 July 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2013 July 2 &#8211; 9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal Earth passes aphelion, its most distant point from the Sun, on the 5th at 10:44 am EDT. At this time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be 152,097,413 kilometers (94,508,951 miles) from Old Sol. Since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at our most distant from the day-star we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re moving at our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer slows down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}