{"id":18544,"date":"2022-04-11T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:12:16","slug":"why-is-the-sky-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/04\/11\/why-is-the-sky-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the sky blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aw041122-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aw041122-20.jpg\" alt=\"Why is the sky blue?\" class=\"wp-image-18516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aw041122-20.jpg 316w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aw041122-20-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/aw041122-20-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why is the sky blue?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a GREAT question!! NOAA gives a concise answer: \u201cGases and particles in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a GREAT question!! NOAA gives a concise answer: \u201cGases and particles in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18588,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions\/18588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}