{"id":3733,"date":"2011-03-20T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/status-updates\/the-vernal-equinox-occurs-on-march-20th-at-721-pm-edt-this-is-the-moment-when-the-center-of-the-suns-disc-reaches-an-ecliptic-longitude-of-zero-degrees-astronomically-this-defines-the\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:21:00","slug":"the-vernal-equinox-occurs-on-march-20th-at-721-pm-edt-this-is-the-moment-when-the-center-of-the-suns-disc-reaches-an-ecliptic-longitude-of-zero-degrees-astronomically-this-defines-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/status-updates\/the-vernal-equinox-occurs-on-march-20th-at-721-pm-edt-this-is-the-moment-when-the-center-of-the-suns-disc-reaches-an-ecliptic-longitude-of-zero-degrees-astronomically-this-defines-the\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;The vernal equinox occurs on March 20th at 7:21 pm EDT. This is the moment when the center of the Sun&rsquo;s disc reaches an ecliptic longitude of zero degrees. Astronomically this defines the beginning of spring.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2011-march-15-22\">The Sky This Week, 2011 March 15 &#8211; 22 \u2014 Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky This Week, 2011 March 15 &#8211; 22 \u2014 Naval Oceanography Portal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}