{"id":3298,"date":"2011-12-22T05:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2011-12-22T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:08:59","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/backroad.jpg\" alt=\"backroad\" title=\"backroad\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/backroad.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/backroad-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky to live in a place that experiences all the seasons to the fullest. Keeps it fresh, I think, and makes me appreciate each season that much more. And as a person who loves the nighttime (I say as I type this at 3am), I really enjoy the darkness of winter. I also love the idea of being snowed into a warm house.. cancerian hermit crab in me talking. In a nutshell (crabshell?), I have some pretty romantic notions of winter that push it towards being my favorite season.<\/p>\n<p>That said, my travel plans for a couple days in Colorado have been thwarted by snow to the west and icy interstates. (Aside: If I could take roads like the one in the picture everywhere I went, I probably would).<\/p>\n<p>Happy Winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m lucky to live in a place that experiences all the seasons to the fullest. Keeps it fresh, I think, and makes me appreciate each season that much more. And as a person who loves the nighttime (I say as I type this at 3am), I really enjoy the darkness of winter. I also love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3303,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}