{"id":166,"date":"2007-12-19T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/12\/daylight"},"modified":"2007-12-19T07:44:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:44:46","slug":"daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/12\/daylight","title":{"rendered":"daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/2120867216\/\" title=\"sunset, abu dhabi by jessamyn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2100\/2120867216_724d38d4b1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" alt=\"sunset, abu dhabi\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My photos of Dubai are now completely uploaded and in a photoset on Flickr that you can see here: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157603491009264\/\">Dubai 2007<\/a>. The cactuscam was a success and allowed me to see the christmas cactus flowering until something happened and it went dark on Decembe 11th. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/tempo\/index.html\">the last photo<\/a> from the day I got back. As I recall from the last time I went left the country in mid-December, coming back to a US that has gotten its Christmas on while I was away is always a little jarring. Christmastime in Dubai was interesting because Dubai is a Muslim country and so it is crystal clear that the trees and ornaments and lights designate a secular, shopping holiday. It&#8217;s a little more murky here. <\/p>\n<p>However, I like Winter. And yesterday I woke up to a box of fancy english muffins on my doorstep. In two days from now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter_solstice\">the days are going to start getting longer<\/a>. If that isn&#8217;t a bang-up reason for a celebration I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/12\/daylight\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to daylight\"><p>My photos of Dubai are now completely uploaded and in a photoset on Flickr that you can see here: Dubai 2007. The cactuscam was a success and allowed me to see the christmas cactus flowering until something happened and it went dark on Decembe 11th. Here is the last photo from the day I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,173,161,174,7,172,176],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-daylight","tag-dubai","tag-nighttime","tag-photos","tag-solstice","tag-xmas","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}