{"id":72355,"date":"2018-12-21T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/21\/winter-solstice-why-are-days-so-short-this-time-of-year-and-why-do-we-celebrate-the-longest-night\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:51:00","slug":"winter-solstice-why-are-days-so-short-this-time-of-year-and-why-do-we-celebrate-the-longest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=72355","title":{"rendered":"Winter solstice: Why are days so short this time of year and why do we celebrate the longest night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical phenomenon marks bleak midwinter and &#8216;death&#8217; of the old year<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/winter-solstice-facts-what-time-when-hours-daylight-days-2018-google-doodle-happy-a8694656.html\" target=\"_blank\">Winter solstice: Why are days so short this time of year and why do we celebrate the longest night?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomical phenomenon marks bleak midwinter and &#8216;death&#8217; of the old year Via: Winter solstice: Why are days so short this time of year and why do we celebrate the longest night?<\/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-72355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72355","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=72355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}