{"id":18,"date":"2003-06-18T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2003-06-18T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-18T14:32:00","slug":"18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summer Solstice<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nothing this year in the way of formal outdoor ritual: At the moment of the solstice, I should be streaking across the prairie en route to Chicago aboard Amtrak&#8217;s Southwest Chief. But I still check my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeoastronomy.com\">archaeoastronomy site <\/a>to know just when it  will happen.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Solstice Nothing this year in the way of formal outdoor ritual: At the moment of the solstice, I should be streaking across the prairie en route to Chicago aboard Amtrak&#8217;s Southwest Chief. 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