{"id":119,"date":"2004-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-02-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T12:00:00","slug":"a-manhattan-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/28\/a-manhattan-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"A Manhattan Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cool link from Tobasc0cat, our astronomically-inclined correspondent:<br \/>\n<a HREF=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/\">Astronomy Picture of the<br \/>\nDay<\/a> for 28MAY2004: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040528.html\">A Manhattan<br \/>\nSunset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><i>Today, if it is clear, Manhattan will flood dramatically with sunlight<br \/>\njust as the Sun sets precisely  on the centerline of every street.  Usually,<br \/>\nthe tall buildings that line the gridded streets of New York City&#8217;s<br \/>\ntallest borough will hide the setting Sun. This effect makes Manhattan a<br \/>\ntype of modern Stonehenge&#8230; If today&#8217;s sunset is hidden by clouds do not<br \/>\ndespair&#8212;the same thing happens every May 28 and July 12.<\/i><br \/>\n<img \/>SRC=&#8221;http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0405\/nycsunset_tyson.jpg&#8221;<br \/>\nWIDTH=&#8221;180&#8221; HEIGHT=&#8221;240&#8221;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\n<font SIZE=\"-2\">[ <a>HREF=&#8221;http:\/\/opendna.freeshell.net\/img\/nycsunset_tyson_big.jpg&#8221;<br \/>\nWIDTH=&#8221;180&#8221; HEIGHT=&#8221;240&#8221;&gt;IMG MIRROR<\/a> ]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool link from Tobasc0cat, our astronomically-inclined correspondent: Astronomy Picture of the Day for 28MAY2004: A Manhattan Sunset. &#8212;- Today, if it is clear, Manhattan will flood dramatically with sunlight just as the Sun sets precisely on the centerline of every street. Usually, the tall buildings that line the gridded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}