{"id":650698,"date":"2026-06-21T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650698\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:37:15","slug":"in-pictures-swimmers-and-hikers-revel-in-summer-solstice-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650698\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Swimmers and hikers revel in summer solstice sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The solstice always occurs between 20 and 22 June, though during a leap year it generally falls on 20 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exact date shifts slightly each year because the Earth takes almost a quarter of a day longer to complete its orbit of the Sun than our calendar accounts for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This discrepancy is why we add a leap day every four years \u2013 to keep the calendar aligned with Earth&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In English, the world solstice comes from the Latin word solstitium, meaning &#8220;sun standing still&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It seems to suggest a brief pause as the Sun reaches its most extreme point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The solstice always occurs between 20 and 22 June, though during a leap year it generally falls on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650698","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=650698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}