{"id":5139,"date":"2011-12-22T06:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:07:14","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5139","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, I post a light-in-darkness painting (one of a series currently in progress based on Washington National Cathedral) and a poem by Patrick Kavanaugh. In celebration of the solstice, look for shooting stars tonight and tomorrow in the constellation Ursa Minor.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the solstice fell, for the first time since 1638, on the day of a lunar eclipse. For a sketch in honor of this event, please see <a title=\"Winter Solstice\/Lunar Eclipse\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winter Solstice\/Lunar Eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/StainedGlassLight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5140\" title=\"StainedGlassLight\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/StainedGlassLight.jpg\" alt=\"StainedGlassLight\" width=\"462\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/StainedGlassLight.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/StainedGlassLight-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A Star<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beauty was that<br \/>\nFar vanished flame,<br \/>\nCall it a star<br \/>\nWanting better name.<\/p>\n<p>And gaze and gaze<br \/>\nVaguely until<br \/>\nNothing is left<br \/>\nSave a grey ghost-hill.<\/p>\n<p>Here wait I<br \/>\nOn the world\u2019s rim<br \/>\nStretching out hands<br \/>\nTo Seraphim.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Patrick Kavanaugh<\/em><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\"><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, I post a light-in-darkness painting (one of a series currently in progress based on Washington National Cathedral) and a poem by Patrick Kavanaugh. In celebration of the solstice, look for shooting stars tonight and tomorrow in the constellation Ursa Minor. Last<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5139\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[100,145,47,23,61,19,144,18],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-architecture","tag-cathedral","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-print","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}