{"id":8122,"date":"2025-12-22T20:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:17:48","slug":"the-winter-solstice-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8122","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Solstice and Beyond!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the good news is the days are getting longer! Of course it is the run up to <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>Christ<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">mas<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>so it is making sure everything is ready. Have done a couple of rides around the area delivering cards- it has been a good test for my bike that had a puncture a couple of days ago- a drawing pin stuck in the tyre!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clare<\/strong> and I have been designated crowd control over <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Christ<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">mas<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>because we will have both our children&#8217;s families and us all together so there will be\u00a0 three very excited grandchildren who will need occupying and calming down while the parents are busy with the food. Should be fun!!! Having said the parents are preparing food I traditionally do the vegetarian alternative- so I am cooking tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the good news is the days are getting longer! Of course it is the run up to Christmas so it is making sure everything is ready. Have done a couple of rides around the area delivering cards- it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-270","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}