{"id":553,"date":"2004-03-19T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2004-03-19T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/19\/spring-in-the-air-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:31:16","slug":"spring-in-the-air-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/03\/19\/spring-in-the-air-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1173\"><\/a>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tulipworld.com\/info\/home\/images\/116290.jpg\" \/>  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceworld.wolfram.com\/astronomy\/VernalEquinox.html\">this site<\/a>, the 2004 Vernal Equinox happens at 6:41 UT (Universal Time) on March 20, which puts it at 23:41 Pacific Standard Time on March 19.  According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/web.uvic.ca\/equity\/holy2004.html\">other site<\/a>, the Vernal Equinox is observed as a holiday from 6pm of the evening prior to the day listed, but I bet they&#8217;re not terribly scientific about it, fiddling with UT and PST and all that.  I think the basic message for us on the other side of UT is that tonight, regardless of atomic clocks, we fly our tulips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this site, the 2004 Vernal Equinox happens at 6:41 UT (Universal Time) on March 20, which puts it at 23:41 Pacific Standard Time on March 19. According to this other site, the Vernal Equinox is observed as a holiday from 6pm of the evening prior to the day listed, but I bet they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}