{"id":1303,"date":"2009-12-11T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T00:55:13","slug":"almost-the-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Almost the Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks remain to the Winter Solstice, and the sunset is way to the south west of our front porch.\u00a0 Sunsets are almost as dramatic but hidden behind the trees and very short lived this time of year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1304\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1304\" title=\"dec11-sunset2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bands of color are low on the horizon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Less than a minute later the color intensified and spread across the sky.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1305\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1305\" title=\"dec11-sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dec11-sunset-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The colors are deepest right before fading away into night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Still very cold here.\u00a0 It is supposed to be warming up and will start snowing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1306\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/smug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1306\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1306\" title=\"smug\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/smug.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smug.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smug-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;I&#39;m an indoor kitty.  The woodstove keeps me nice and cozy.  Ahhhh, time for a nap.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He just looked so smug and pleased with life that I had to take a picture.\u00a0 He was being a holy terror all morning while I was working.\u00a0 He kept jumping on my computer mouse and trying to have boxing matches with my hand.\u00a0 He adds a certain aspect of challenge to working on the computer with such behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two weeks remain to the Winter Solstice, and the sunset is way to the south west of our front porch.\u00a0 Sunsets are almost as dramatic but hidden behind the trees and very short lived this time of year. Less than a minute later the color intensified and spread across the sky. Still very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}