{"id":396379,"date":"2017-10-31T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=95ecefe37e3424fa63e1cedc3aec759f"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:30:03","slug":"are-red-skies-at-night-a-shepherds-delight-an-astronomers-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=396379","title":{"rendered":"Are red skies at night a shepherd&#8217;s delight? An astronomer&#8217;s view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have always used simple observations of nature to try to understand our complex environment and even the wider cosmos. One such example is: &#8220;Red sky at night, shepherd&#8217;s delight&#8221; and &#8220;Red sky at morning, shepherd&#8217;s warning&#8221;. These sayings \u2013 which date back to the Bible (Matthew 16:2b\u20133) \u2013 suggest that a particularly red sunset means clear weather is coming and a particularly red sunrise means it&#8217;s going to be bad weather or possibly a stormy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have always used simple observations of nature to try to understand our complex environment and even the wider cosmos. One such example is: &#8220;Red sky at night, shepherd&#8217;s delight&#8221; and &#8220;Red sky at morning, shepherd&#8217;s warning&#8221;. These sayings &ndash; which date back to the Bible (Matthew 16:2b&ndash;3) &ndash; suggest that a particularly red sunset means clear weather is coming and a particularly red sunrise means it&#8217;s going to be bad weather or possibly a stormy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396380,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396379\/revisions\/396380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}