{"id":62771,"date":"2025-12-23T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=62771"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:07:20","slug":"happy-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=62771","title":{"rendered":"Happy Solstice!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday was the Winter Solstice, the renewal of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We note the perfect alignment of the HQ<\/strong> chimney and the WLBOTT<\/strong> retreat center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To commemorate the Solstice, we hiked up to our nearby City Park and photographed the giant compass face about 15 minutes after sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elder JimZim does some fact checking….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The WLBOTT Solstice Celebration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A Worldwide Celebration!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our WLBOTT <\/strong>Ambassadors join in the celebration from the four corners of the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Canyon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The UN Antarctic Research Station<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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In the Sonora Desert<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Near Tierra Del Fuego<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Westminster Presbyterian Church, Baltimore MD<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Palo Duro Canyon, West Texas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The International Space Station<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Agra, India<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Tiananmen Square, China<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Washington, D.C.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Sunday was the Winter Solstice, the renewal of light. We note the perfect alignment of the HQ chimney and the WLBOTT retreat center. To commemorate the Solstice, we hiked up to our nearby City Park and photographed the giant compass face about 15 minutes after sunrise. Elder JimZim does some fact checking…. The WLBOTT Solstice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[47,40,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-of-the-elders","category-meaning-of-life","category-peace-thru-twine"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771","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=62771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62858,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771\/revisions\/62858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}