{"id":55969,"date":"2026-03-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=e3a4eae0eb8c58d01d7b2117802ee757"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:15:48","slug":"a-not-so-equal-equinox-why-day-beats-night-on-the-1st-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/03\/20\/a-not-so-equal-equinox-why-day-beats-night-on-the-1st-day-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"A not-so-equal equinox: Why day beats night on the 1st day of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                             The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. Here's why the equinox doesn't appear perfectly equal. \n                                                                                                            ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                             The spring equinox marks the first day of spring today, but daylight actually lasts several minutes longer than night. Here&#8217;s why the equinox doesn&#8217;t appear perfectly equal.<br \/>\n                                               &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stargazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55978,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55969\/revisions\/55978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}