{"id":203908,"date":"2025-12-21T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203908\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:16:11","slug":"stonehenge-timelapse-shows-winter-solstice-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/203908\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge: Timelapse shows winter solstice sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sunrise on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sun rose just after 08:00 GMT at the historic site in Wiltshire, England, with some of the 8,500 visitors taking part in symbolic rituals to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One family told the BBC they woke up at 02:00 to drive down from Nottingham for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just nice to get involved,&#8221; said daughter Bella Ridley-Thompson. &#8220;This is a ceremony after all, so it&#8217;s nice to dress up and have a bit of respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From today, the days will start to get longer and we will get more daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to watch the sunrise on the winter solstice, the shortest day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-203908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}