{"id":308,"date":"2005-03-20T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2005-03-20T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T16:52:00","slug":"oval-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/20\/oval-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Oval Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111133453031222531--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the equinox today, I think, or close enough. Wake the neighbors, phone the kids&#8230; and go balance and egg on it&#8217;s end.  Not one of those bumpy ones, either.  Today is one of two days in the year that you can balance even smooth and pointy ones on their ends.  We&#8217;ve had one standing up straight all morning on the kitchen counter, wondering how long before the planet tips enough to knock it over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the equinox today, I think, or close enough. Wake the neighbors, phone the kids&#8230; and go balance and egg on it&#8217;s end. Not one of those bumpy ones, either. Today is one of two days in the year that you can balance even smooth and pointy ones on their ends. We&#8217;ve had one standing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/20\/oval-equinox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oval Equinox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}