{"id":29300,"date":"2024-06-20T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=29300"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:04:42","slug":"summer-solstice-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/summer-solstice-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4701\" style=\"width: 6048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4701\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6048\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers.jpg 6048w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sunflowers-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6048px) 100vw, 6048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SONY DSC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So today is the longest day.\u00a0 I believe it.\u00a0 Hot, hot, hot and sunny too.\u00a0 Beautiful.\u00a0 Well, the pessimist says from now on the day is getting shorter all the way to Christmas.\u00a0 Well, sure.\u00a0 But, so what?\u00a0 It\u2019s a beautiful ride.\u00a0 And right now, only a fool would begin sighing and whining about decline.\u00a0 The Earth is reaching the greatest tilt of the North Pole toward the sun and we can feel the giddy spin as it starts its long descent.\u00a0 What a gaudy act to follow, perched here in the dead zone of Dunwich.\u00a0 Watching the stars wheeling on midsummer\u2019s night and the lightning bugs dancing around the swamp makes me smile to think that some people think all this was the act of random chance.\u00a0 The 10<sup>300<\/sup> required factors needed to make life, any form of life, happen in this universe along with all the other astronomical, physical and chemical precursors for life line up to give us lightning bugs.<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 This world was made so that I could exult in the splendor of this yearly crest.\u00a0 The top of the Ferris wheel, the top of the roller coaster.\u00a0 What a fine time to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is the longest day.\u00a0 I believe it.\u00a0 Hot, hot, hot and sunny too.\u00a0 Beautiful.\u00a0 Well, the pessimist says from now on the day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[253,3661],"class_list":["post-29300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-summer","tag-summer-solstice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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