{"id":1992,"date":"2020-06-20T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:35:04","slug":"summer-solstice-winter-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice &#8212; Winter is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2020-june-16-23\">The Sky This Week, 2020 June 16 &#8211; 23 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Astronomical summer officially arrives on the <strong>20th at 5:44 pm EDT<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the moment when Old Sol reaches an ecliptic longitude of 90 degrees, and it also happens to be the time when he reaches his highest northern declination, with the center of his disc perched over the Tropic of Cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the longest day for residents of the Northern Hemisphere, but the length of day varies widely with latitude.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in Washington we will have 14 hours 54 minutes between sunrise and sunset.\u00c2\u00a0 Residents of Hawai\u00e2\u20ac\u2122i will only see 13 hours 20 minutes of daylight, while residents of Fairbanks will have 21 hours and 50 minutes to enjoy the Sun along with twilight to fill the remaining hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2020 June 16 &#8211; 23 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal Astronomical summer officially arrives on the 20th at 5:44 pm EDT.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the moment when Old Sol reaches an ecliptic longitude of 90 degrees, and it also happens to be the time when he reaches his highest northern declination, with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Solstice &#8212; Winter is coming<\/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-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}