{"id":1852,"date":"2019-12-04T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:43:09","slug":"earliest-sunsets-through-12-12-also-the-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Earliest sunsets through 12\/12 (also the Full Moon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2019-december-3-10\">The Sky This Week, 2019 December 3 &#8211; 10 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week we begin to see the phenomena associated with the winter solstice.\u00c2\u00a0 The solstice \u00e2\u20ac\u0153season\u00e2\u20ac\u009d begins with the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest sunsets, which occur all of this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in Washington the Sun disappears below the horizon at 4:46 pm EST.\u00c2\u00a0 He will gradually start to set later starting on December 13th.\u00c2\u00a0 Although this gives the illusion of the days getting longer, we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see our latest sunrise until early January.\u00c2\u00a0 In between the solstice occurs on the 21st, which will be the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shortest day.\u00c2\u00a0 This seemingly odd behavior is due to the way we now keep time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.144px;\">December\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Full Moon is variously known as the Long Night Moon, Old Moon, or the Moon Before Yule.\u00c2\u00a0 Since this Full Moon occurs closest to the winter solstice is will be the most northerly one of the year, beaming down on the frosty landscape below.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2019 December 3 &#8211; 10 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal This week we begin to see the phenomena associated with the winter solstice.\u00c2\u00a0 The solstice \u00e2\u20ac\u0153season\u00e2\u20ac\u009d begins with the year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earliest sunsets, which occur all of this week.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in Washington the Sun disappears below the horizon at 4:46 pm EST.\u00c2\u00a0 He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earliest sunsets through 12\/12 (also the Full Moon)<\/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-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}