{"id":645778,"date":"2025-12-21T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645778\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:10:16","slug":"crowds-gathering-for-sunrise-at-stonehenge-on-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645778\/","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.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4b94d86e-eca1-4fe5-b625-4a5b231195a2.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Tinshui Yeung<\/strong><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":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115756311954077952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}