{"id":13513,"date":"2010-12-21T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/12\/21\/13513.html"},"modified":"2010-12-21T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T23:38:00","slug":"awaits-the-suns-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/12\/21\/awaits-the-suns-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaits the sun&#8217;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year's winter solstice occurs today at 3:38 p.m. California time.<\/p>\n<p>And none too soon.<\/p>\n<p>As is traditional 'round these here parts, here are my favorite lines from Susan Cooper's poem &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostland.com\/shortest.htm\">The Shortest Day<\/a>&rdquo;:<\/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>That sure sounds good, doesn't it?<\/p>\n<p>I think I'll leave this entry at that this year.<\/p>\n<p>(Except for my also-traditional apologies to Southern Hemispherians for rejoicing at our lengthening days when yours are about to grow shorter.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s winter solstice occurs today at 3:38 p.m. California time. And none too soon. As is traditional &#8217;round these&#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-13513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513","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=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}