{"id":7227,"date":"2017-02-17T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:22:41","slug":"winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7227","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WInter Solstice\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAPaLB7-A9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This started life as a mandolin piece I composed in 1981. I&#8217;ve tried to keep some of that mandolin-y feel to it whilst widening the palette considerably, into guitar and piano sounds as well as tuned percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inspiration of the Winter Solstice is probably my version of a Christmas song &#8211; the turning point at the end of the year always feels very poignant and significant to me. I no longer have any religious beliefs, but if I did, this is where they would be &#8211; in the dead of night, dreaming of light and warmth as the snowflakes come down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This started life as a mandolin piece I composed in 1981. I&#8217;ve tried to keep some of that mandolin-y feel to it whilst widening the palette considerably, into guitar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7529,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/7529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}