{"id":8965,"date":"2025-12-20T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:26:14","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2025\/12\/20\/winter-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year around this time I try to find this poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemist.com\/john-milo-ford\/winter-solstice-camelot-station\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.poemist.com\/john-milo-ford\/winter-solstice-camelot-station\">John M Ford: Winter Solstice, Camelot Station.<\/a>  This year, at Black Gate Magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2021\/03\/02\/a-great-fantasy-poem-winter-solstice-camelot-station-by-john-m-ford\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2021\/03\/02\/a-great-fantasy-poem-winter-solstice-camelot-station-by-john-m-ford\/\">I also found this discussion of the poem<\/a>. And more recently: <a href=\"https:\/\/levgrossman.substack.com\/p\/the-tiny-arthurian-masterpiece-you\">The Tiny Arthurian Masterpiece You Probably Haven&#8217;t Read<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">The one who is King says \u201cIt all seemed so simple, once,\u201d<br \/>And the best knight in the world says \u201cIt is. We make it hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year around this time I try to find this poem by John M Ford: Winter Solstice, Camelot Station. This year, at Black Gate Magazine, I also found this discussion of the poem. And more recently: The Tiny Arthurian Masterpiece You Probably Haven&#8217;t Read. The one who is King says \u201cIt all seemed so simple, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2025\/12\/20\/winter-solstice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Solstice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looking-back"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-2kB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}