{"id":1515,"date":"2026-12-21T00:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-12-21T05:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:07:09","slug":"today-is-the-winter-solstice-in-the-northern-hemisphere-and-the-summer-solstice-in-the-southern-hemisphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere Is Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15487\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15487\" class=\"wp-image-15487 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Beach-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can&#8217;t Wait for Summer Beach Days<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Today is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. <\/strong>The word <em>solstice<\/em> means &#8220;the sun stands still.&#8221; The amount of daylight is shortest and the amount of darkness is the most for the whole year today in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the amount of daylight is the longest, and the amount of darkness is the shortest. Different cultures mark the day in different ways. Children could read about some of those celebrations in<em> The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice<\/em> by Caroline McVicker Edwards. They could also visit a very interesting website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/ssec.si.edu\/stemvisions-blog\/what-winter-solstice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Solstice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. The word solstice means &#8220;the sun stands still.&#8221; The amount of daylight is shortest and the amount of darkness is the most for the whole year today in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the amount of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1515' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,376,6097],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-december-21","tag-summer-solstice","tag-winter-solstice-in-the-northern-hemisphere","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29916,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/29916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}