{"id":3546,"date":"2013-07-25T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T04:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2013-07-25T23:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T04:48:30","slug":"father-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/3546\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Almanac update is the final installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/oneoftwo.deviantart.com\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Wright&#8217;s<\/a> four-illustration series, <em>The Spirits of the Seasons<\/em> with <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/mythic.php#FatherWinter\" target=\"_blank\">Father Winter<\/a>.\u00a0We&#8217;ve already met this seasonal spirit twice in the comic. Chances are, he&#8217;ll be back. Until then, here&#8217;s his poetical introduction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A howling wind heralds his bleak approach,<br \/>\nand with each soft step, ice and snow encroach,<br \/>\nBurdened by regrets and hopes dead too soon<br \/>\nLost in memories polished as the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may notice the wolf beside Father Winter. Is that <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/mythic.php#Malsum\" target=\"_blank\">Malsum<\/a>? Or as Snow would call him &#8220;Daddy&#8217;s mean friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Almanac update is the final installment of Julie Wright&#8217;s four-illustration series, The Spirits of the Seasons with Father Winter.\u00a0We&#8217;ve already met this seasonal spirit twice in the comic. Chances are, he&#8217;ll be back. Until then, here&#8217;s his poetical introduction. A howling wind heralds his bleak approach, and with each soft step, ice and snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}