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<\/a><\/p>\nReflections On a Scottish Christmas<\/strong><\/em> In celebration of this shortest day, this longest night of the year, a sketch and a poem. Reflections On a Scottish Christmas The dark of winter wraps around us tight. The lamps are fired, and flickering light beats time to the fiddle as notes float softly down, like the years\u2019 first snow. While outside theRead 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":[1],"tags":[44,23,17,19,117,3,18],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-bird","tag-festival","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-snow","tag-watercolor","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","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=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe dark of winter wraps around us tight.
\nThe lamps are fired, and flickering light
\nbeats time to the fiddle as notes float softly down, like the years\u2019 first snow.
\nWhile outside the window a blast of late December wind
\nwhistles harmony to the drone of the pipes.
\nWe push the old year back against the wall
\nso we can dance a jig for Christmas and welcome in the new.
\n\u2014Johnny Cunningham<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"