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Quote for the day;<\/strong><\/p>\n “So the shortest day came, and the year died, They lighted candles in the winter trees; And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake As promise wakens in the sleeping land: –\u00a0\u00a0 Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quote for the day; “So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned beseeching fires all night long To keep the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[406,74],"tags":[521,894,615,146,139,616,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
\nCame people singing, dancing,
\nTo drive the dark away.<\/p>\n
\nThey hung their homes with evergreen;
\nThey burned beseeching fires all night long
\nTo keep the year alive,<\/p>\n
\nThey shouted, reveling.
\nThrough all the frosty ages you can hear them
\nEchoing behind us – Listen!!
\nAll the long echoes sing the same delight,
\nThis shortest day,<\/p>\n
\nThey carol, fest, give thanks,
\nAnd dearly love their friends,
\nAnd hope for peace.
\nAnd so do we, here, now,
\nThis year and every year.
\nWelcome Yule!!”<\/p>\n