{"id":170764,"date":"2025-06-20T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170764"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:36:39","slug":"weekend-open-thead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170764","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170765 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Summer-Solstice-20250620-A.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s summer solstice will occur at 10:42 P.M. EST. This is the astronomical beginning of summer. The meteorological beginning of summer began on June 1. Ancients who used monuments to mark the solstices and equinoxes would see the sun set at the summer solstice marker. During the following weeks, sun sets would progressively work their way to the equinox marker&#8230; The period in the calendar when they would have to seriously think about harvesting operations. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s summer solstice will occur at 10:42 P.M. EST. This is the astronomical beginning of &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thead\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170764\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thead<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}