{"id":1718,"date":"2016-03-19T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T01:24:14","slug":"the-vernal-equinox-320-then-the-crow-moon-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"The Vernal Equinox 3\/20, then the Crow Moon 3\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Mountain DST, the vernal equinox is 10:30pm 3\/19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2016-march-15-23\">The Sky This Week, 2016 March 15 &#8211; 23 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The vernal equinox occurs on the 20th at 12:30 am EDT. This is the moment when the Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ecliptic longitude reaches zero degrees. For many ancient cultures this moment marked the beginning of a new year \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>Full Moon, which occurs on the 23rd at 8:01 am Eastern Daylight Time. The Full Moon of March is popularly known as the Worm Moon, Crow Moon, Sap Moon, or Lenten Moon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2016-march-15-23\">The Sky This Week, 2016 March 15 &#8211; 23 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mountain DST, the vernal equinox is 10:30pm 3\/19. The Sky This Week, 2016 March 15 &#8211; 23 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal The vernal equinox occurs on the 20th at 12:30 am EDT. This is the moment when the Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ecliptic longitude reaches zero degrees. For many ancient cultures this moment marked the beginning of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Vernal Equinox 3\/20, then the Crow Moon 3\/23<\/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-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}