{"id":22145,"date":"2023-03-29T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=22145"},"modified":"2023-03-30T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T00:55:37","slug":"why-is-the-sky-blue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/03\/29\/why-is-the-sky-blue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the sky blue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AW032923-3-e1680134656495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AW032923-3-1024x996.jpg\" alt=\"Why is the sky blue in the Summer?\" class=\"wp-image-22134\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why is the sky blue in the Summer?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Love this question! NOAA gives a concise answer for why the sky is blue generally: \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>Love this question! NOAA gives a concise answer for why the sky is blue generally: \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-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145","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=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22168,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions\/22168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}