The summer solstice, the official astronomical start of summer, is today, June 20<\/b>. Here’s a thread for summery facts and fancies.<\/p>\n
Confusingly, mid<\/em>summer night falls just three days from now, on June 23<\/b> — a magical, dreamy time, we need hardly explain.<\/p>\n (Of course, that’s assuming you live in the Northern Hemisphere. For MBers south of the equator, this is the winter<\/em> solstice, and we beg your pardon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The summer solstice, the official astronomical start of summer, is today, June 20. Here’s a thread for summery facts and fancies. Confusingly, midsummer night falls just three days from now, on June 23 — a magical, dreamy time, we need hardly explain. (Of course, that’s assuming you live in the Northern Hemisphere. For MBers south … Continue reading “Happy Summer!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11925,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions\/11925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}