{"id":28741,"date":"2016-12-21T02:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28741"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T23:56:05","slug":"the-shortest-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/the-shortest-day-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The shortest day of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The solstice arrived this morning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/winter-solstice-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-shortest-day-of-the-year\/70000293\" target=\"_blank\">At the very moment I posted this<\/a>, in fact. While most of us, including me, were snug in our beds.<\/p>\n<p>So celebrate the return of light, fellow denizens of the northern hemisphere. Be relieved that the sun has not abandoned us after all &#8212; even if it&#8217;s not giving us much warmth for a few months yet.<\/p>\n<p>I celebrate with a feast, followed by silence and candlelight.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, there&#8217;s music to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8uC1rcoTAcw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When the Winter Comes&#8221;:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8uC1rcoTAcw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPnYMigh0cI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Logs to Burn&#8221;:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vPnYMigh0cI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pvmV00mZeik\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Praise Midwinter&#8221;:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pvmV00mZeik\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And an instrumental medley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsaJTO1ssDU\" target=\"_blank\">of other winter tunes<\/a>, Celtic style:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WsaJTO1ssDU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solstice arrived this morning. At the very moment I posted this, in fact. While most of us, including me, were snug in our beds. So celebrate the return of light, fellow denizens of the northern hemisphere. Be relieved that the sun has not abandoned us after all &#8212; even if it&#8217;s not giving us much warmth for a few months yet. I celebrate with a feast, followed by silence and candlelight. In the morning, there&#8217;s music to enjoy. &#8220;When the Winter Comes&#8221;: &#8220;Logs to Burn&#8221;: &#8220;Praise Midwinter&#8221;: And an instrumental medley of other winter tunes, Celtic style:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-miscellaneous","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28746,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions\/28746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}