{"id":1670,"date":"2016-01-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2015-12-31T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T20:34:07","slug":"perihelion-1216-as-close-as-we-get-until-the-sun-swells-to-engulf-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"Perihelion 1\/2\/16 &#8212; as close as we get until the sun swells to engulf the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2015-december-29-2016-january-5\">The Sky This Week, 2015 December 29 &#8211; 2016 January 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>January 2nd marks the date of Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perihelion, its closest distance to the Sun. On this date we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a mere 147 million kilometers (91.4 million miles) from the fierce surface of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153day star\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2015-december-29-2016-january-5\">The Sky This Week, 2015 December 29 &#8211; 2016 January 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2015 December 29 &#8211; 2016 January 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal January 2nd marks the date of Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perihelion, its closest distance to the Sun. On this date we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a mere 147 million kilometers (91.4 million miles) from the fierce surface of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153day star\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The Sky This Week, 2015 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perihelion 1\/2\/16 &#8212; as close as we get until the sun swells to engulf the earth<\/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-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","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=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}