{"id":642,"date":"2010-03-20T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-03-20T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:55:18","slug":"spring-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Spring Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modestine.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/chick_in_hand.jpg\" alt=\"chick\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s here!<\/p>\n<p>Today the sun appears to drift directly over the equator. The day is roughly as long as the night in both the southern and northern hemispheres. And after today, until late June, each day in the Northern hemisphere will be a little longer than the previous day. (In the Southern hemisphere: Darkness approacheth.)<\/p>\n<p>Hurray for spring!<\/p>\n<p>According to some people, today is the best day to balance an egg standing up. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bad\/misc\/egg_spin.html#badegg\">this is ridiculous<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s here! Today the sun appears to drift directly over the equator. The day is roughly as long as the night in both the southern and northern hemispheres. And after today, until late June, each day in the Northern hemisphere will be a little longer than the previous day. (In the Southern hemisphere: Darkness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}