{"id":1573,"date":"2014-07-03T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2014-07-02T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T00:46:17","slug":"happy-aphelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Happy Aphelion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2014-july-1-8\">The Sky This Week, 2014 July 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun, on the 3rd at 4:13 pm EDT.<\/strong>&nbsp; At this time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be just over 94,550,000 miles (153,000, 000 kilometers) from the day-star.&nbsp; Six months from now, in early January, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find ourselves closest to the Sun by a mere 3 million miles or so.&nbsp; Fortunately this annual excursion means that the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orbit is nearly circular, so our climate remains relatively benign throughout the year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2014-july-1-8\">The Sky This Week, 2014 July 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2014 July 1 &#8211; 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun, on the 3rd at 4:13 pm EDT.&nbsp; At this time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be just over 94,550,000 miles (153,000, 000 kilometers) from the day-star.&nbsp; Six months from now, in early January, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find ourselves closest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Aphelion!<\/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-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","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=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}