{"id":21986,"date":"2025-12-21T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:50","slug":"the-longest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21986","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/solsticeIMGP0015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/solsticeIMGP0015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/solsticeIMGP0015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Lights out in force for the Winter Solstice. Things can only get brighter.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Blue Hour<\/em>* by Paula Hawkins. A2 is rereading<em> Started Early, Took My Dog<\/em> by Kate Atkinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lights out in force for the Winter Solstice. Things can only get brighter. A1 is reading The Blue Hour* by Paula Hawkins. A2 is rereading Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21988,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}