{"id":3760,"date":"2006-12-20T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/12\/20\/3760.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T09:22:44","slug":"daylights-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/12\/20\/daylights-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight&#8217;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year's winter solstice will occur at 7:22 p.m. Eastern (US) Standard Time on December 21. Which is to say, around 4:30 p.m. my time on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>And not a minute too soon.  I am, as usual, tired of the days getting shorter and darker.  It seems likely that some of my occasional grumpiness lately has been due to winter blahs, though I haven't had them as bad this year as in some past years.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I'm very happy that the days will start getting longer again.  (With my usual apologies to y'all Southern Hemispherians.)<\/p>\n<p>Doubt I'll get a chance to post at solstice time, so I'll jump the gun by a day and a half with this entry. In keeping with my recently established tradition, here's my favorite bit of Susan Cooper's poem \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostland.com\/shortest.htm\">The Shortest Day<\/a>\" (thanks again, Chaos):<\/p>\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<p>Here's another relevant verse, this one from a song by Charlie Murphy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Light is returning,<\/p>\n<p>Even though this is the darkest hour:<\/p>\n<p>No one can hold back the dawn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s winter solstice will occur at 7:22 p.m. Eastern (US) Standard Time on December 21. Which is to say,&#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-3760","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\/3760","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=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}