{"id":1632,"date":"2003-12-22T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T08:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/12\/22\/1632.html"},"modified":"2003-12-22T00:43:51","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T08:43:51","slug":"shortest-day-longest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/12\/22\/shortest-day-longest-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortest day, longest night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a vague notion that there's a really nice Winter Solstice poem somewhere in the back of my head, but I just checked and it's not in <cite>The Dark Is Rising,<\/cite> and I don't know where else it might be, and I'm totally exhausted (no staying up all night for me), so I'll leave you with this:<\/p>\n<p>Happy Solstice!<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erh.noaa.gov\/er\/box\/equinox.html\">exact time of the solstice<\/a>, according to the US Naval Observatory, was 2:04 a.m. EST, which was 11:04 p.m. here, about an hour and a half ago.)<\/p>\n<p>May your days grow brighter and your nights warmer.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a vague notion that there&#8217;s a really nice Winter Solstice poem somewhere in the back of my head,&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}