{"id":1187,"date":"2009-01-06T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-01-06T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:43:18","slug":"belated-happy-perihelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1187","title":{"rendered":"Belated Happy Perihelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/calvinandhobbes\/2009\/01\/06\/\">Calvin&#8217;s dad is not a scientist<\/a>, and the cartoon gets it almost exactly wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He says it&#8217;s colder because the earth&#8217;s orbit is taking us farther from the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The perihelion was Jan 4th, meaning we were closest to the sun then.<\/p>\n<p>The seasons, of course, are caused by the axial tilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin&#8217;s dad is not a scientist, and the cartoon gets it almost exactly wrong. He says it&#8217;s colder because the earth&#8217;s orbit is taking us farther from the sun. The perihelion was Jan 4th, meaning we were closest to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-physics","tag-calvin-hobbes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}