{"id":10814,"date":"2007-12-21T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/21\/10814.html"},"modified":"2007-12-21T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T19:03:55","slug":"solstice-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/12\/21\/solstice-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been counting down the weeks and the days. Woke up this morning and realized that in just a bit over 11 hours (as I write this), at 10:08 p.m. California time, we'll reach the solstice, and days are going to start getting longer again. This will make me very happy.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it hadn't occurred to me 'til this morning to wonder about the etymology of the word \"solstice.\" I looked it up, then started to post it in this entry, then realized that it's exactly the sort of thing that belongs in my sadly neglected wordblog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2007\/12\/21\/solstice.html\">Neology<\/a>. So I posted it over there instead.<\/p>\n<p>I know I quoted this a few weeks ago already, and I don't want to dull it by overuse, but I'm nonetheless going to once again post my favorite lines from Susan Cooper's poem \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostland.com\/shortest.htm\">The Shortest Day<\/a>\":<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>As promise wakens in the sleeping land:<\/p>\n<p>They carol, feast, give thanks,<\/p>\n<p>And dearly love their friends,<\/p>\n<p>And hope for peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Btw, heard Cooper and Gregory (<cite>Wicked<\/cite>) Maguire in a <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.wgbh.org\/wgbh\/forum.php?lecture_id=3773\">discussion of writing fantasy<\/a> on NPR a few weeks back; interesting stuff, though there probably wasn't much that would be new to those of you who read and\/or write fantasy.) (There doesn't seem to be a version of that discussion online, but maybe there will be at some point? Not sure. You can also buy it on CD from the Cambridge Forum site.)<\/p>\n<p>Apologies as always to y'all Southern Hemispherians for my delight about this, given that y'all's days will now be getting shorter.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been counting down the weeks and the days. Woke up this morning and realized that in just a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}