{"id":11402,"date":"2017-09-03T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2017-09-03T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T13:48:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/03\/word-of-the-day-218\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Equilux<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An\u00a0<b>equinox<\/b>\u00a0is the moment in which the\u00a0<a title=\"Plane (geometry)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plane_(geometry)\">plane<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Earth\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\">Earth<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a title=\"Equator\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equator\">equator<\/a>\u00a0passes through the center of the\u00a0<a title=\"Sun\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun\">Sun<\/a>&#8216;s disk,<sup id=\"cite_ref-USNO_FAQ_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox#cite_note-USNO_FAQ-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September.<\/p>\n<p>On an equinox, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. They are not exactly equal, however, due to the angular size of the sun and\u00a0<a title=\"Atmospheric refraction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atmospheric_refraction\">atmospheric refraction<\/a>. To avoid this ambiguity, the word\u00a0<i>equilux<\/i>\u00a0is sometimes (but rarely) used to mean a day in which the durations of light and darkness are equal. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equinox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just happened to stumble across it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equilux: An\u00a0equinox\u00a0is the moment in which the\u00a0plane\u00a0of\u00a0Earth&#8216;s\u00a0equator\u00a0passes through the center of the\u00a0Sun&#8216;s disk,[2]\u00a0which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September. On an equinox, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. They are not exactly equal, however, due to the angular size of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/03\/word-of-the-day-218\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}