
{"id":2831,"date":"2008-06-19T06:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:47:44","slug":"for-the-record-summer%e2%80%99s-here-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/19\/for-the-record-summer%e2%80%99s-here-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Record: Summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s here (duh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that warmer weather has settled in. We have scientific proof of that thanks to a friend of ours \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a local deli owner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who with the aid of a highly accurate, instant-read thermometer recorded temperatures on downtown sidewalks last week of well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFurther research through the United States Naval Observatory tells us that our planet is tilting in such a way that the Northern Hemisphere experiences more direct sunlight and longer days, which apparently warms things up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The solstice \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the moment when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer at the International Date Line \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is on June 20 at 7:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, which is also the last minute of the day in Universal Time.<\/p>\n<p>You may be interested to know that this is the first time the solstice has occurred in the last minute of the 20th since 1896.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy and others tells us it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a long slow slide toward winter after that. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let you know the minute that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that warmer weather has settled in. We have scientific proof of that thanks to a friend of ours \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a local deli owner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who with the aid of a highly accurate, instant-read thermometer recorded temperatures on downtown sidewalks last week of well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}