{"id":2634,"date":"2014-12-21T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2014-12-21T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:58:58","slug":"the-wrong-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy shortest day, except it&#8217;s not, apparently, but as the fluctuations are in terms of seconds only, it&#8217;s hardly worth mentioning, apart from in terms of pedantry.\u00a0\u00a0 Jings, it&#8217;s been ages since I posted anything and you would think there would be loads of chat but there is not, my brain is a bit empty since all the focus has been on loads of work and fitting in Christmas shopping. Oh and <em>Paddington<\/em> (very good) and <em>The Hobbit III<\/em> (very sad).\u00a0 For the first time ever we forgot to go to the Lyceum, so we missed <em>The Bondagers <\/em>in November.<\/p>\n<p>So, lest this item be accorded the lowly status of placeholder,\u00a0 I would like to wish everyone a very happy and joyful Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you all find some time to reflect on 2014 and to plan a graceful, stately and above all calm entry into 2015.\u00a0 Yes, I know, fat chance here too but it would be nice to give the semblance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Evil Blizzard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TSIdpz7y79I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ho Ho Ho.\u00a0 <\/a>Our chum Jeff is in this video. We&#8217;ve been singing this in the car.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy shortest day, except it&#8217;s not, apparently, but as the fluctuations are in terms of seconds only, it&#8217;s hardly worth mentioning, apart from in terms of pedantry.\u00a0\u00a0 Jings, it&#8217;s been ages since I posted anything and you would think there would be loads of chat but there is not, my brain is a bit empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}