{"id":6854,"date":"2016-03-20T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/vernal-equinox-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:00:30","slug":"vernal-equinox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/vernal-equinox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vernal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vernal-equinox.jpg' title='Vernal Equinox'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vernal-equinox.jpg' alt='Vernal Equinox' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got this screen capture this morning over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeoastronomy.com\/\">Archaeoastronomy.com<\/a> which has probably the best depiction of the orbital stations of the Earth relating to seasonal changes. The <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/40.gif' title='animated graphic'>animated graphic<\/a> nicely illustrates the concept of the Earth passing through the eight stations as it orbits the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally with the advent of spring, one of the hedgehog cacti I wrote about yesterday has two flowers open this morning. Damsel took this image of one of them. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hedgehog-cactus-flower.jpg' title='Hedgehog Cactus Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hedgehog-cactus-flower.jpg' alt='Hedgehog Cactus Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this screen capture this morning over at Archaeoastronomy.com which has probably the best depiction of the orbital stations of the Earth relating to seasonal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,72,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-flowers","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}