{"id":4154,"date":"2010-12-29T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:00:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:00:58","slug":"where-the-aurora-borealis-name-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/where-the-aurora-borealis-name-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the &#8220;Aurora Borealis&#8221; Name Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aurora-borealis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4155\" title=\"aurora-borealis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aurora-borealis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aurora-borealis.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/aurora-borealis-340x185.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What causes the northern and southern lights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/what-causes-the-northern-and-southern-lights\/\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn What Causes the Northern and Southern Lights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of the dawn, which is how the first part of the name \u201caurora borealis\u201d came about.\u00a0 The \u201cborealis\u201d comes from the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What Causes the Northern and Southern Lights Text Version In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of the dawn, which is how the first part of the name \u201caurora borealis\u201d came about.\u00a0 The \u201cborealis\u201d comes from the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1102],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-aurora-borealis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}