{"id":381,"date":"2005-05-19T23:26:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-05-19T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T21:26:42","slug":"twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just now, at ten minutes past eleven at night, took this picture off my front porch. With just over a month left until the solstice, we’ve already got almost twenty-four hours of daylight. It will get a bit duskier tonight than it is now, but it won’t reach full darkness, and by two-thirty in the morning it will be totally light again.<\/p>\n

As I type this Olof is on a plane flying home from Uppsala, some 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of where we live. It was already dark there when his flight took off, and he has a window seat, which means he’ll get to see the skies become ever lighter over the course of the hour that he flies north. Lydia and I got to see that last June when we returned home from a weekend in Stockholm, and as much as I’ve been known to complain about the midnight sun, that rapid darkness-to-light progression is an undeniably cool phenomenon to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just now, at ten minutes past eleven at night, took this picture off my front porch. With just over a month left until the solstice, we’ve already got almost twenty-four hours of daylight. It will get a bit duskier tonight than it is now, but it won’t reach full darkness, and by two-thirty in… Read More Twilight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}