{"id":195442,"date":"2025-12-21T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195442\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:18:09","slug":"stonehenge-timelapse-shows-winter-solstice-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195442\/","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":195443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-195442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}