{"id":15442,"date":"2016-12-21T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/12\/21\/15442.html"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:34:40","slug":"solstice-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/12\/21\/solstice-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere arrived about nine hours ago. Here's my traditional solstice post.<\/p>\n<p>First, from T. S. Eliot's &ldquo;Burnt Norton&rdquo; (1935):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;<\/p>\n<p>Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,<\/p>\n<p>But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,<\/p>\n<p>Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,<\/p>\n<p>Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,<\/p>\n<p>There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.<\/p>\n<p>I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where.<\/p>\n<p>And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, here's my traditional quote of my favorite lines from Susan Cooper's poem &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/birdwoman-thenatureofthings.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/poetry-sunday-shortest-day.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\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere arrived about nine hours ago. Here&#8217;s my traditional solstice post. First, from T&#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":[85,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","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=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}