{"id":14314,"date":"2012-12-21T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/12\/21\/14314.html"},"modified":"2012-12-21T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:36:30","slug":"solstice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/12\/21\/solstice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can't sleep&mdash;have been sick all week, and although I've been getting gradually better, tonight my neck started hurting to the point that I can't find a comfortable position.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, that means that I'm awake at almost Solstice time; it's just about 45 minutes from now. So figured I would take advantage of restlessness to do my traditional Solstice post just about on time.<\/p>\n<p>Which is to say, here are my favorite lines from Susan Cooper's poem &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrevels.org\/shortest.html\">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>(Link changed; the poem has apparently been removed from Ms. Cooper's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostland.com\/\">website<\/a>, which is where I usually link to it.)<\/p>\n<p>This year, I have not been coping well with winter dark; I'm very glad that the days will be growing longer again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t sleep&mdash;have been sick all week, and although I&#8217;ve been getting gradually better, tonight my neck started hurting to the&#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":[74,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314","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=14314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}