{"id":573,"date":"2005-12-22T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=573"},"modified":"2005-12-22T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T01:29:07","slug":"shortest-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/shortest-day-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortest Day of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;To our ancestors the shortest day (21st December) marked the lowest ebb of the year, but it also marked the day when the sun was reborn, gradually growing in strength to the Midsummer Solstice. Many ancient standing stones, stone circles and other monuments are aligned with the winter sunrise on the 21st of December. The most famous being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowth.com\/newgrange.htm\">Newgrange<\/a> (<b>Been there!<\/b>) in Ireland, where a finger of sunlight shines along the dark entrance through a narrow aperture above the monument&#8217;s entrance.&#8221;<\/i> from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk\/festivals\/christmas.html\">www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.google.com\/answers\/threadview?id=446422\">google answers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/earth\/solsticescience.shtml\">bbc.co.uk &#8211; solstice science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To our ancestors the shortest day (21st December) marked the lowest ebb of the year, but it also marked the day when the sun was reborn, gradually growing in strength to the Midsummer Solstice. Many ancient standing stones, stone circles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/shortest-day-of-the-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}