{"id":6990,"date":"2016-06-20T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/summer-solstice\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T19:39:14","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/summer.jpg' title='Solstice'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/summer.jpg' alt='Solstice' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the clock here, summer officially started just a few minutes ago when the sun reversed its northbound travel (as seen from Earth) and will be heading southward again with the days getting shorter. June 20th daylight hours\/minutes is 14:25, the longest day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I borrowed the screenshot graphic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeoastronomy.com\/\">Archaeoastronomy.com<\/a> showing the frame from the animation where Earth passes through the summer solstice point in its orbit. The graphic shows the four seasonal starting points along with the four cross-quarter points of ancient significance.<\/p>\n<p>Our summer weather is already here with yesterday and today&#8217;s highs above normal, hitting 116 yesterday and probably close to that again today. Damsel and I are cool and comfy inside our beautiful air conditioned territorial cottage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the clock here, summer officially started just a few minutes ago when the sun reversed its northbound travel (as seen from Earth) and will&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}