{"id":4904,"date":"2016-12-21T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2016-12-21T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:36:41","slug":"happy-solstice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/happy-solstice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4905\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4905\" class=\"wp-image-4905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719.png\" alt=\"img_7719\" width=\"250\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719.png 560w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719-450x431.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7719-250x239.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning sun, Winter Solstice 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we speed through the shortest day of the year, I&#8217;m looking up and enjoying the low-riding sunlight. I like to think about how our planet is spinning to the east at a thousand miles an hour, fast enough for each time zone, one by one, to crest through sunrise into the light. The wintery air feels like the coolness of outer space right here in my back yard, pressing against my storm windows, while inside, the old heat of the sun resurfaces as the heat in my oven, baking cookies. Tomorrow, the day will start elongating again as we orbit onward and effectively tip our north pole back toward the sun.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you and yours a Happy Solstice!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_677\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Solstice2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-677\" class=\"wp-image-677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Solstice2.jpg\" alt=\"The Earth in 4 Key Places. Note the Light for the Solstice. Not to scale.\" width=\"425\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Solstice2.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Solstice2-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Earth in 4 Key Places. Note the light for the Solstice. Not to scale.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we speed through the shortest day of the year, I&#8217;m looking up and enjoying the low-riding sunlight. I like to think about how our planet is spinning to the east at a thousand miles an hour, fast enough for each time zone, one by one, to crest through sunrise into the light. The wintery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthmarked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}