{"id":328,"date":"2006-12-31T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/12\/31\/astronomy-puzzle-in-what-direction-does-the-sun-set\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T10:11:47","slug":"astronomy-puzzle-in-what-direction-does-the-sun-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/12\/31\/astronomy-puzzle-in-what-direction-does-the-sun-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Puzzle: In what direction does the sun set?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what direction does the sun set?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered the West &#8211; duh! I mean more accurately!<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside\">This is a stupid question to ask in a textual forum &#8211; I need to get a basketball and a tennis ball to get my ahead around it properly, but here I go anyway.<\/div>\n<p>I made the following claim:<\/p>\n<p>If you are located further South than the Tropic of Capricorn, then the Sun will never be directly overhead, and furthermore will only appear in the Northern half of the sky. <\/p>\n<p>I predicted that &#8211; this far South &#8211; the Sun would always set somewhat North of due West.<\/p>\n<p>My father didn&#8217;t use logic or astronomical facts. He just pointed out the sun was setting on the southerly side of a road that was heading due West.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody experimentalists ruin perfectly good theories.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am waving my fists in the air &#8211; not in anger, but as representations of the Sun and the Earth &#8211; trying to understand how the Sun, directly above a more Northerly latitude, could appear to set relatively South in late December.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what direction does the sun set?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[107,55],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-puzzle-solving","tag-astronomy","tag-puzzle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}