{"id":1270,"date":"2009-12-21T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2009-12-21T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:54:00","slug":"great-nights-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"‘Great Nights Returning’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fine poem for the winter solstice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fine poem for the winter solstice.<\/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":[43],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ku","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4793,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4793","url_meta":{"origin":1270,"position":0},"title":"Why the Solstice Sunrise is not the Latest","author":"Chas S. 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There are two of them actually: The UPG, it's-personal version ... \"It's a ritual of transformation from darkness into light,\" says Nicole Cooper, a high priestess at Toronto's Wiccan Church of Canada. \"It's the idea that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Canada\"","block_context":{"text":"Canada","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=canada"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1100,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1100","url_meta":{"origin":1270,"position":4},"title":"Yule and its Songs","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Northern Hemisphere winter solstice occurs at 12:04 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time on December 21. That's 5:04 a.m. here in Colorado, perfect for the people drumming up the Sun at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. (I won't be there--too far away.) Remember to visit Archaeoastronomy.com for all your calendrical ritual-timing needs.You can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"music\"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8956,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8956","url_meta":{"origin":1270,"position":5},"title":"A Secular Solstice or Truly “Pagan-ish”?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this sign last Friday at the public library in Pueblo, Colorado, and I liked it for a bunch of reasons. Sometimes I get tired of the \"jolly old elf\" and would not mind seeing a more dignified winter monarch(s). 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