{"id":327764,"date":"2025-12-21T07:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:14:04","slug":"crowds-gathering-for-sunrise-at-stonehenge-on-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327764\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds gathering for sunrise at Stonehenge on winter solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s winter solstice &#8211; shall we watch the sun rise together?published at 06:31 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:31 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4b94d86e-eca1-4fe5-b625-4a5b231195a2.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Tinshui Yeung<br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning from London, today marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year for the northern hemisphere &#8211; the winter solstice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weather may be a chilly 8C in Wiltshire, but that won\u2019t stop the celebrations &#8211; especially at Stonehenge, where large crowds are expected to gather to watch the sun rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ll bring you scenes from the historic site, along with a dose of science and culture to keep things interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, settle in, stick with us, and we\u2019ll greet the new day side by side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s winter solstice &#8211; shall we watch the sun rise together?published at 06:31 GMT 06:31 GMT Tinshui YeungLive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}