{"id":68,"date":"2006-06-21T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2006-06-21T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T19:20:00","slug":"merry-solstice-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/merry-solstice-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Summer Solstice or &#8220;Midsummer&#8217;s Day&#8221; in the Northern Hemisphere. It&#8217;s the Winter Solstice or &#8220;Midwinter&#8217;s Day&#8221; in the Southern Hemisphere. Either way, it&#8217;s a day for celebration by most Pagans with European roots. Jason Pitzl-Waters&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhunt.org\/blog.html\">Wild Hunt<\/a> blog has a lovely post today about the events at Stonehenge and elsewhere this year, with multiple media quotes of a remarkably neutral tenor. Oh no! We may have to stop thinking of ourselves as victims soon!<\/p>\n<p>For more on the holiday(s), see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/NeoDruidismCalendar.html\">Neopagan Druid Calendar<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Winter or summer, remember&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/ibonewits\/1048344\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/graphics\/Solstice-Sm-96dpi.jpg\" alt=\"Solstice is the reason for the season\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Summer Solstice or &#8220;Midsummer&#8217;s Day&#8221; in the Northern Hemisphere. It&#8217;s the Winter Solstice or &#8220;Midwinter&#8217;s Day&#8221; in the Southern Hemisphere. <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/merry-solstice-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}