{"id":6865,"date":"2016-12-21T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/winter-solstice\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:02:58","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s toast with mulled cider to the curtailed day<\/p>\n<p>Reflection as new beginnings make way<\/p>\n<p>Warmth beside yule logs that burn and smolder<\/p>\n<p>An evergreen wreath lines the doorway<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sun\u2019s lifeforce secedes and the air grows colder<\/p>\n<p>Luminaries lit, candles burn in their holders<\/p>\n<p>The glow is low, elongated shadows are seen<\/p>\n<p>Appearing to stand still in the eye of beholders<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fur coats thicken on foxes and wolverine<\/p>\n<p>Plants lie dormant, conserving til\u2019 spring<\/p>\n<p>24-hours of darkness in the north<\/p>\n<p>Feasts before famine was the old routine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fermented wine and beer and slow roast<\/p>\n<p>Ice thickens and bears rest in comatose<\/p>\n<p>Marked by Stonehenge\u2019s trilithon, so grandiose<\/p>\n<p>Late December when Fall comes to a close<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Amy Pinney, who grew up in Juneau, loves to write about the Alaskan lifestyle and celebrates our four seasons including the cold and dark northern solstice.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s toast with mulled cider to the curtailed day Reflection as new beginnings make way Warmth beside yule logs that burn and smolder An evergreen wreath lines the doorway &nbsp; The sun\u2019s lifeforce secedes and the air grows colder Luminaries lit, candles burn in their holders The glow is low, elongated shadows are seen Appearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}