{"id":103,"date":"2007-12-20T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T04:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/103"},"modified":"2007-12-20T22:48:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:48:39","slug":"happy-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/happy-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solstice<\/a>Religious and family customs shape many holiday rituals, but the beauty of Winter Solstice is that it excludes no one and touches everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, who is immune to the changing season, the earth growing cold, the days of dwindling light?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year<\/em> – and the promise of the earth’s re-birth in the spring.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Modern day traditions, including mistletoe, yule logs, lighting of candles, exchanging gifts, decorating evergreen boughs and caroling are all\u00c2\u00a0rooted in this beautiful, ancient holiday.<\/p>\n

In Ireland, many gather at Newgrange<\/a><\/em>, 1000 years older than Stonehenge, who’s unique construction captures and directs the morning sunlight on Winter Solstice down a long corridor.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, for the first time ever, the 2007 Winter Solstice illumination at Newgrange will be available live on the internet and by free to air satellite broadcast – TONIGHT!<\/p>\n

The live stream will begin at 8:30 am on 21st and 22nd December 2007. (That’s tonight and tomorrow night at 12:30am PT, 1:30am MT) <\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to access the webcast<\/a><\/p>\n

While you’re waiting for the webcast (or if you missed it), here is a \u00c2\u00a0brief quiz about Winter Solstice<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy Solstice!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Religious and family customs shape many holiday rituals, but the beauty of Winter Solstice is that it excludes no one and touches everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, who is immune to the changing season, the earth growing cold, the days of dwindling light?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year – and the promise of … Continue reading Happy Winter Solstice<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}