{"id":1176,"date":"2023-06-21T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbaustin.com\/wlbott\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2023-06-21T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:00:54","slug":"happy-midsommar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Happy Midsommar!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today WLBOTT celebrates the summer solstice! As the earth circles the sun, the tilt of our planet gives the northern hemisphere the longest amount of sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebrated in many ways around the world, in Texas the solstice means that the days will get shorter, hopefully resulting in a cool front in October or November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midsommar: The Movie<\/u><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Midsommar<\/a>: a very, very creepy movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie is filled with pagan, cult, and Nordic symbolism (and a lot of cinematic Easter eggs). Several YouTube videos do a deep dive into the symbols and foreshadowing of the movie (spoilers: here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midsommar: not happy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Midsommar: not happy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Midsommar: Happy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Midsommar Easter Egg (YouTube video<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Midsommar: The Buffet<\/u><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Will there be a buffer? Ja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buffet Scene, Midsommar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pickled Herring, from the movie Midsommar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buffet Scene, Midsommar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buffet Scene, Midsommar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Midsommar Recipes on Pinterest<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today WLBOTT celebrates the summer solstice! As the earth circles the sun, the tilt of our planet gives the northern hemisphere the longest amount of sunlight. Celebrated in many ways around the world, in Texas the solstice means that the days will get shorter, hopefully resulting in a cool front in October or November. Midsommar: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,5,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-destinations","category-scandinavia","category-texas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}