{"id":41941,"date":"2010-12-21T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41941"},"modified":"2010-12-21T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:38:00","slug":"its-winter-solstice-today-the-worlds-greatest-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41941","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Winter Solstice today &#8211; the World&#8217;s Greatest Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">21 December, 2010: &#8211; -\u00c2\u00a018h38, December. 21, 2010, marks the solstice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.\u00c2\u00a0The precise moment of the 2010 solstice will be 21 December\u00c2\u00a02010 at 18h38 UTC. In the Southern Hemisphere, the next Winter Solstice takes place on June 21, 2011 at 17:16 UTC\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Longest Night of the Year<br \/>\n<\/span>The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbe-surf.com\/news.asp?Id_news=44604\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 December, 2010: &#8211; -\u00c2\u00a018h38, December. 21, 2010, marks the solstice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.\u00c2\u00a0The precise moment of the 2010 solstice will be 21 December\u00c2\u00a02010 at 18h38 UTC. In the Southern Hemisphere, the next Winter Solstice takes place on June 21, 2011 at 17:16 UTC\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Longest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41943,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941\/revisions\/41943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}