{"id":6190,"date":"2014-12-22T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2014-12-22T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:36:57","slug":"no-wonder-druids-are-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/12\/22\/no-wonder-druids-are-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"No wonder Druids are confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder Druids are more confused than usual this time of year when sunset started getting later\u00a0around\u00a0December 15th, and the sunrise will only be earlier\u00a0after January 1st\u00a0\u2013 even though their blessed Solstice was on December 21st. \u00a0Actually, it was at 2303 on the 21st, as the Solstice and the shortest day are\u00a0not the same thing. \u00a0Whilst hardy Druids were likely to be safely in the pub by then, no doubt drinking <em>mead, metheglin, melomel<\/em> and the like, I marked the Solstice (at 2303 GMT) by plugging in my electric car \u2013 more on that in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>For rich detail on all this \u2013 and much more \u2013 go to <a href=\"http:\/\/thesciencegeek01.wordpress.com\">Sciencegeek<\/a> aka Stephen Hurley. \u00a0Meanwhile, the compliments of the season, to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder Druids are more confused than usual this time of year when sunset started getting later\u00a0around\u00a0December 15th, and the sunrise will only be earlier\u00a0after January 1st\u00a0\u2013 even though their blessed Solstice was on December 21st. \u00a0Actually, it was at...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}