{"id":661,"date":"2008-06-20T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/06\/20\/summer-solstice\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:53:44","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer solstice this year is on June 20, the earliest it has been since 1896 (but it made it to the 20th only by a minute).&nbsp; More fascinating facts, including what you would see at the Egyptian pyramids, at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2008\/06\/080619-solstice-facts_2.html\">National Geographic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important reference works ever written, and one of the best gifts that I ever received (volume 2 thereof), was the <em>Context of Scripture<\/em>.&nbsp; Unfortunately they entitle the section &#8220;The Tell Dan Stele.&#8221;&nbsp; Do you know why that is wrong?&nbsp; (Or am I just <strike>becoming<\/strike> too much of a nerd?)<\/p>\n<p>Afraid of heights?&nbsp; You probably don&#8217;t want to hike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/el-camino-del-rey.htm\">this trail<\/a> in Spain<\/p>\n<p>Krauthammer has a couple of good columns recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/15\/AR2008051503577.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Israel at 60<\/a>, much better than the title makes it sound, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/29\/AR2008052903266.html?nav=rss_opinion\/columns\">Environmentalism<\/a> as the new tool of the liberals to rule the masses<\/p>\n<p>News that makes me happy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">Firefox 3 is out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News that makes me sad: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Russert\">Tim Russert<\/a> has died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer solstice this year is on June 20, the earliest it has been since 1896 (but it made it to the 20th only by a minute).&nbsp; More fascinating facts, including what you would see at the Egyptian pyramids, at National Geographic. One of the most important reference works ever written, and one of the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/summer-solstice\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-dont-like","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}