{"id":159,"date":"2006-12-21T18:20:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/southern-sun"},"modified":"2006-12-21T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:20:27","slug":"southern-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/southern-sun","title":{"rendered":"Southern Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Winter Solstice!<\/p>\n<p>The winter solstice is cool. No, I&#8217;m not a Pagan. I&#8217;m allowed to think the solstice is cool without being a damn Pagan! Nothing to do with any kind of religious belief. More of a nature appreciation thing. Where is the sun shining and not shining?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, poor Santa Claus is in the dark these days. Maybe that&#8217;s why he makes the journey. North Pole is too dark and depressing. Although that wouldn&#8217;t explain why he makes the journey at night where it&#8217;s dark everywhere else!<\/p>\n<p>Penguins have all the light.<\/p>\n<p>So every December 21, more or less, I like to go outside at noon to see where the sun is. Wherever it is, that is due south.<\/p>\n<p>Damn! It was cloudy today! :doitnow:<\/p>\n<p>On another note, I finished my Christmas shopping. I&#8217;m afraid to look at my bank account. Sigh. Oh, well. Nothing says Christmas like spending your entire paycheck on gifts for your undeserving family. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stringlights.gif\" title=\"Merry Christmas!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Winter Solstice! The winter solstice is cool. No, I&#8217;m not a Pagan. I&#8217;m allowed to think the solstice is cool without being a damn Pagan! Nothing to do with any kind of religious belief. More of a nature appreciation thing. Where is the sun shining and not shining? Meanwhile, poor Santa Claus is in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/southern-sun\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Southern Sun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}