{"id":5827,"date":"2010-03-20T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2010-03-20T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T00:00:54","slug":"crocuses-herald-the-arrival-of-spring-flatbush-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/03\/20\/crocuses-herald-the-arrival-of-spring-flatbush-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocuses Herald the Arrival of Spring! &#8211; Flatbush, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/crocus_flatbush_2010.jpg?resize=500%2C747\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Far from being an arbitrary indicator of the changing seasons, <strong>March  20<\/strong> (March 21 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons.  On March 20, 2010, at precisely 1:32 P.M. EDT (March 20,  17:32 Universal  Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth&#8217;s equator. This  moment is known as the <strong>vernal equinox<\/strong> in the Northern Hemisphere.  For the Southern Hemisphere, this is the moment of the <strong>autumnal  equinox<\/strong>. &#8211; Infoplease dot com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/riteofspring1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rite of Spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/Users\/frankjump\/Desktop\/equinox.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/equinox.gif?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5828\" title=\"equinox\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/equinox.gif?resize=200%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far from being an arbitrary indicator of the changing seasons, March 20 (March 21 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons. On March 20, 2010, at precisely 1:32 P.M. EDT (March 20, 17:32 Universal Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth&#8217;s equator. This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220,384,551,1590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-crocus","category-flatbush","category-vernal-equinox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1vZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}