{"id":5555,"date":"2026-06-21T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:13:07","slug":"summer-solstice-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5555","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10242\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10242\" class=\"wp-image-10242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/First-Day-of-Summer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"First Day of Summer\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Day of Summer<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Summer solstice is today. <\/strong>Today is the longest amount of light and the shortest amount of darkness in the northern hemisphere. Today is also the shortest amount of light and the longest amount of darkness (start of winter) in the southern hemisphere. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmonster.com\/spot\/solsticeforkids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer Solstice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer solstice is today. Today is the longest amount of light and the shortest amount of darkness in the northern hemisphere. Today is also the shortest amount of light and the longest amount of darkness (start of winter) in the southern hemisphere. Children can learn more at: Summer Solstice.<\/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":[376],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-summer-solstice","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\/5555","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=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29433,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/29433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}