{"id":3184,"date":"2015-05-26T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2024-02-08T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:56:18","slug":"solistice-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/26\/solistice-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Solistice Silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As heathen, sun-god worshiping outdoors folk, the contracted daylight hours of the imminent winter solstice starts to make\u00a0us all go a little bit silly.\u00a0Over the past few years, there has been a burgeoning tradition of club members reveling in\u00a0their\u00a0silliness on the day our favourite deity\u00a0reaches its most northern exposure. Memorable silliness-ness expeditions have included <a title=\"mid-winter ledge parties\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10204164255410502&amp;type=1&amp;l=d1262d5dfe\">mid-winter ledge parties<\/a>\u00a0in the Grose Valley,\u00a0winter solstice canyoning trips which have resulted in benightings in the snow (Steve Hare, 2013) \u00a0and the infamous (although not really UNSWOC) <a title=\"Freezefest\" href=\"http:\/\/fatcanyoners.org\/freezefest\/\">Freezefest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My question to you is, how do you plan to celebrate\u00a0your solstice sillyness this June 21st?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Winter-Solstice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3185\" src=\"http:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Winter-Solstice.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Solstice\" width=\"1000\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Winter-Solstice.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Winter-Solstice-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to Bayu Sadewo for drawing the amazing graphic you can see above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As heathen, sun-god worshiping outdoors folk, the contracted daylight hours of the imminent winter solstice starts to make\u00a0us all go &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/26\/solistice-silliness\/\" aria-label=\"Solistice Silliness\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trip-annoucement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unswoc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}