{"id":986,"date":"2011-09-23T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.net\/wild\/?p=986"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:48:55","slug":"the-actual-day-of-exactly-12-hours-of-daylight-wont-occur-until-the-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;the actual day of exactly 12 hours of daylight won&rsquo;t occur until the 26th&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-september-20-27\">The Sky This Week, 2011 September 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The word &quot;equinox&quot; implies that the length of day and night are equal on the 23rd, but <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">since the Sun isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a point source of light and we view it at sunrise and sunset through a refractive atmosphere<\/font> the actual day of exactly 12 hours of daylight won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t occur until the 26th. From then <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">until March 16<\/font> next year the nights will be longer than the days. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-september-20-27\">The Sky This Week, 2011 September 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2011 September 20 &#8211; 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal The word &quot;equinox&quot; implies that the length of day and night are equal on the 23rd, but since the Sun isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a point source of light and we view it at sunrise and sunset through a refractive atmosphere the actual day of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;the actual day of exactly 12 hours of daylight won&rsquo;t occur until the 26th&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}