{"id":47226,"date":"2019-12-13T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=47226"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:06:22","slug":"st-lucies-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/13\/st-lucies-day\/","title":{"rendered":"St Lucie&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St Lucie's Day<\/a>. It marks the shortest day of the year in the old calendar - when people began to think they might hope again.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to like this song on the theme, by Police Dog Hogan. The opening lyrics seem quite apt this morning:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St Lucie&#039;s Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDZ-nj5VF6s?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is St Lucie&#8217;s Day. It marks the shortest day of the year in the old calendar &#8211; when people began to think they might<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2019\/12\/13\/st-lucies-day\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}