{"id":1979,"date":"2020-03-19T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:47:03","slug":"happy-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Happy Equinox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3a6e57M\">The Sky This Week, 2020 March 17 &#8211; 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vernal equinox occurs on the 19th at 11:50 pm EDT.\u00c2\u00a0 This moment marks the instant when the ecliptic longitude of the Sun reaches zero degrees and begins another circuit around the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the earliest occurrence of the equinox since the year 1896, and we will continue to see equinoxes on the 19th (in EDT) every four years through the year 2096.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[T]<span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Lucida, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.144px;\">he actual day of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153equilux\u00e2\u20ac\u009d occurred on March 16th.\u00c2\u00a0 From now until the next \u00e2\u20ac\u0153equilux\u00e2\u20ac\u009d day on September 25th we will have more daylight than darkness.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2020 March 17 &#8211; 24 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal The vernal equinox occurs on the 19th at 11:50 pm EDT.\u00c2\u00a0 This moment marks the instant when the ecliptic longitude of the Sun reaches zero degrees and begins another circuit around the sky.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the earliest occurrence of the equinox since &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Equinox!<\/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-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}