{"id":43370,"date":"2025-12-24T05:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/druids-descend-on-stonehenge-to-mark-winter-solstice\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:27:31","slug":"druids-descend-on-stonehenge-to-mark-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/druids-descend-on-stonehenge-to-mark-winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Druids descend on Stonehenge to mark winter solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Thousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Sunday morning to welcome the sunrise on the winter solstice &#8211; the shortest day of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Wearing Celtic clothing and elaborate, nature-inspired headdresses, druids and pagans danced around the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to have been built by distant ancestors to align with the movements of the Sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn7k55jg2n3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Sunday morning to welcome the sunrise on the winter solstice &#8211; the shortest day of the year. Wearing Celtic clothing and elaborate, nature-inspired headdresses, druids and pagans danced around the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to have been built by distant ancestors to align with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[13071,11672,878,10673,10675,1111],"class_list":["post-43370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-descend","tag-druids","tag-mark","tag-solstice","tag-stonehenge","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43372,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43370\/revisions\/43372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}