{"id":399,"date":"2010-06-17T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/06\/egyptian-summer-solstice\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:34:00","slug":"egyptian-summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2010\/06\/egyptian-summer-solstice.html","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We\u2019re only celebrating once this year \u2013 there\u2019s no <a href=\"http:\/\/johnfranc.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/earth-rhythms-summer-solsticelebration_27.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Solstice event at White Rock Lake<\/a>. But we\u2019re continuing the practice of starting at noon. If you\u2019re in the area, come out and experience it for yourself \u2013 I can promise you it\u2019s not like any other Pagan ritual you\u2019re going to see (unless you find yourself in a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kemetism\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kemetics<\/a>\u2026 and maybe not even then).<\/p>\n<p>Click the image for a larger version of the flyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/TBrAos2fpgI\/AAAAAAAAAe4\/Zg7WDU_lDyo\/s1600\/Egyptian+Summer+Solstice+2010.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cpRXT6ZSHTw\/TBrAos2fpgI\/AAAAAAAAAe4\/Zg7WDU_lDyo\/s400\/Egyptian+Summer+Solstice+2010.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re only celebrating once this year \u2013 there\u2019s no Solstice event at White Rock Lake. But we\u2019re continuing the practice of starting at noon. If you\u2019re in the area, come out and experience it for yourself \u2013 I can promise you it\u2019s not like any other Pagan ritual you\u2019re going to see (unless you find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Egyptian Summer Solstice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We&#039;re only celebrating once this year - there&#039;s no Solstice event at White Rock Lake. But we&#039;re continuing the practice of starting at noon. 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