{"id":17574,"date":"2015-12-22T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T01:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17574"},"modified":"2015-12-22T01:11:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T01:11:51","slug":"solstice-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/22\/solstice-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Solstice sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap141221.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"solstice.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/solstice.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky by Danilo Pivato.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danilo Pivato&#8217;s marvellous photograph of the December sun was NASA&#8217;s winter solstice photo of the day for 2014, although it actually dates from 2005. (And they&#8217;d also posted it twice before.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipgnosiscovers.com\/neilardley.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ardley.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ardley.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The multiplicity of heavenly bodies makes me think of the Hipgnosis cover for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Neil-Ardley-Harmony-Of-The-Spheres-Armon%C3%ADa-De-Las-Esferas\/master\/37450\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harmony of the Spheres<\/em><\/a> (1979), an excellent album by Neil Ardley. I think that&#8217;s the moon rather than the sun but the robed figure suits the solstice moment. This wasn&#8217;t the first time that Hipgnosis had a mysterious figure contemplating the landscape although by 1979 it was probably the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky by Danilo Pivato. Danilo Pivato&#8217;s marvellous photograph of the December sun was NASA&#8217;s winter solstice photo of the day for 2014, although it actually dates from 2005. (And they&#8217;d also posted it twice before.) The multiplicity of heavenly bodies makes me think of the Hipgnosis cover for Harmony of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/22\/solstice-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solstice sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"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":[4,3,12,13],"tags":[7883,430,569,7884],"class_list":["post-17574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-music","category-photography","category-science","tag-danilo-pivato","tag-hipgnosis","tag-nasa","tag-neil-ardley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}