{"id":330,"date":"2010-12-21T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/wishing-everyone-a-blessed-solstice\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:23","slug":"wishing-everyone-a-blessed-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/wishing-everyone-a-blessed-solstice.html","title":{"rendered":"Wishing Everyone a Blessed 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_KiHRHwaAs?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_KiHRHwaAs?fs=1<\/a>\n<\/p><p>Maybe the next version of the song will include the Buddhists\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Happy Solstice to all and to all a Happy Solstice!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2971326823855384012?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the next version of the song will include the Buddhists\u2026 Happy Solstice to all and to all a Happy Solstice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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