{"id":35912,"date":"2014-12-19T04:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35912"},"modified":"2014-12-19T04:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:04:53","slug":"get-ready-to-celebrate-the-longest-night-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/19\/get-ready-to-celebrate-the-longest-night-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to celebrate the longest night of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image005-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"image005\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image005-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image005.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of the longest night of the year, families are invited to the Richmond Nature Park on Dec. 20. Between 1 and 4 p.m., visitors to the park can mark the occasion by drumming and roasting marshmallows. They can also create lanterns to light up the night sky, write a wish on paper to toss in the fire to set it free, decorate the wildlife tree to help birds survive the winter and make evergreen door swags to take home. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, there will be face painting and storytelling. The event wraps up with an easy winter walk by lantern light through the park led by the Frost Fairy.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs on Dec. 21. There is a gradual lengthening of daylight everyday after the winter solstice until the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is reached in June.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the event is by donation, with proceeds supporting nature education programs.<br \/>\nWhile at the Nature Park, take a stroll through the trails to enjoy the unique bog setting. The Richmond Nature Park is located at 11851 Westminster Highway.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call 604-718-6188 or visit www.richmond.ca\/parksprograms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the longest night of the year, families are invited to the Richmond Nature Park on Dec. 20. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm","mauthors-city-of-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}