{"id":4058,"date":"2007-09-30T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/09\/30\/4058.html"},"modified":"2007-09-30T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T16:03:50","slug":"belatedly-equinoctial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/09\/30\/belatedly-equinoctial\/","title":{"rendered":"Belatedly equinoctial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meant to post a week ago to note the autumnal equinox, in the middle of the night (California time) last Saturday night\/Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Days getting shorter, nights getting longer.  The other day the high temperature was 64&deg; F.  I can no longer pretend that it's summer. Foo.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the plus side (in this hemisphere, anyway) is that it's only three more months 'til the days start getting longer again.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to check on the exact date and time of this fall's equinox, I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/equinox1.html\">Fall Equinox<\/a> page at infoplease (possibly reprinted from some other info source; the attribution lines at the end are a little unclear), which has a nice photo of fall leaves, plus a great example of why some photos should remain uncaptioned.  The caption reads: \"The autumnal equinox is a sure sign of fall.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yes, and when small white ice crystals fall from the sky to form soft white drifts on the ground, that's a sure sign of snow.  And when a door is filling a doorway in the way it was designed to do, that's a sure sign that it's closed.  The surest signs are the tautological ones, I find.<\/p>\n<p>(Hee--MW11 defines \"tautological\" as \"tautologous,\" and defines \"tautologous\" as \"involving or containing rhetorical tautology: REDUNDANT.\"  A \"tautology,\" of course, by definition 2, is \"a tautologous statement.\")<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meant to post a week ago to note the autumnal equinox, in the middle of the night (California time) last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}