{"id":20455,"date":"2017-12-21T12:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/21\/winter-solstice-why-is-today-the-shortest-day-of-the-year-and-how-is-it-celebrated\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T12:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:54:40","slug":"winter-solstice-why-is-today-the-shortest-day-of-the-year-and-how-is-it-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20455","title":{"rendered":"Winter solstice: Why is today the shortest day of the year and how is it celebrated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical phenomenon marks bleak midwinter and &apos;death&apos; of the old year<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/winter-solstice-2017-shortest-day-longest-night-seasons-midwinter-celebrations-druids-stonehenge-a8122151.html\" target=\"_blank\">Winter solstice: Why is today the shortest day of the year and how is it celebrated?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical phenomenon marks bleak midwinter and &apos;death&apos; of the old year Via: Winter solstice: Why is today the shortest day of the year and how is it celebrated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}