{"id":5964,"date":"2010-09-23T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:23:43","slug":"equal-night-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/equal-night-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"equal + night = equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5965\" title=\"equinox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/equinox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #71aec1;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\" target=\"_blank\">equinox<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #71aec1;\">late 14c., from O.Fr. <em>equinoce<\/em> (12c.) or directly from M.L.<em> equinoxium<\/em> \u201cequality of night (and day),\u201d from L. <em>aequinoctium<\/em> \u201cthe equinoxes,\u201d from <em>aequus<\/em> \u201cequal\u201d (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=equal\" target=\"_blank\">equal<\/a>) + <em>nox<\/em> (gen. <em>noctis<\/em>) \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=night\" target=\"_blank\">night.<\/a>\u201d The O.E. translation was <em>efnniht<\/em>. Related: <em>Equinoctial<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Seasonal change is definitely in the air (together with tens and tens of thousands of Canada geese massing for migration\u2014as I noted this morning en route to work), on this special twice-a-year day on which the day\u2019s minutes of daylight equal the minutes of darkness <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everywhere<\/span> on our wee planet. <strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Autumnal<\/strong><\/em> up here in the North, <strong><em>Vernal<\/em><\/strong> down under\u2026 regardless, best equinoctial wishes to dear friends and colleagues far and near!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. equinox late 14c., from O.Fr. equinoce (12c.) or directly from M.L. equinoxium \u201cequality of night (and day),\u201d from L. aequinoctium \u201cthe equinoxes,\u201d from aequus \u201cequal\u201d (see equal) + nox (gen. noctis) \u201cnight.\u201d The O.E. translation was efnniht. Related: Equinoctial. Seasonal change is definitely in the air (together with tens and tens of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}