{"id":1095,"date":"2008-12-08T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2008-12-08T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T22:53:00","slug":"the-growing-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":""The Growing Darkness""},"content":{"rendered":"

Cat Chapin-Bishop’s blog post on “The Dark<\/a>” justifies my desire to nap on a dark snowy afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cat Chapin-Bishop’s blog post on “The Dark” justifies my desire to nap on a dark snowy afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[84,43],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-winter","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-hF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":571,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=571","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":0},"title":"Cold Weather","author":"Chas S. 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