{"id":229,"date":"2015-06-21T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T21:28:27","slug":"summer-solstice-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/summer-solstice-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw-624x437.jpg 624w, https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Touch_the_Sun_cropped_4_fw.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer Solstice was confusing to me as a kid. How could it be the start of summer and now the days are going to start getting shorter??? I mean, we just got out of school! Shouldn\u2019t the longest daylight of the year happen in the middle of summer? What\u2019s up with this solstice thing?<\/p>\n<p>As a kid I wanted more \u201cendlessness\u201d in the endless summer. I loved those long days. The magic of roaming the forested hills where I grew up. Days bright and dry enough that we could muster the courage to venture into the dark cave at the old quarry (even if it was absolutely forbidden). Crab apple fights with the kids across the way and the winner gets to occupy the treehouse-fortress. At least until sunset, which felt so far away in the timelessness of those summer days.<\/p>\n<p>Adventure, discovery and possibilities were woven into those days. I\u2019m hungry for more of that in the bright summertime days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s what I want to leave you with today &#8211; the ordinary and simple language of childhood adventure that evokes the awe and possibility of this warm and bright season ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Happy adventuring in the realm of possibility!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/silhouette_fw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/silhouette_fw-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"silhouette_fw\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/silhouette_fw-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/silhouette_fw.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Solstice was confusing to me as a kid. How could it be the start of summer and now the days are going to start getting shorter??? I mean, we just got out of school! Shouldn\u2019t the longest daylight of the year happen in the middle of summer? What\u2019s up with this solstice thing? As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential","category-self_world","category-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenshostek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}