![\"Wishing](\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bright-and-peaceful-yule-mia-mcpherson-7955.jpg\" "\\"Wishing")
<\/p>\nToday, no matter where you are, no matter what you celebrate at this time of the year, I wish you a bright and peaceful Yule.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I hope that this season brings you joy. The loving embraces of family and friends. Great food. Time to contemplate the good things in your life and the ability to spend time seeking those things that stir your passions.<\/p>\n
Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n
Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, no matter where you are, no matter what you celebrate at this time of the year, I wish you a bright and peaceful Yule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1731,26,773],"tags":[5007,3940,5181,4175,4069,12020,4050,4328,165,4076,4176,13569],"class_list":["post-108976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summit-county-utah","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-bright","tag-canyon","tag-conifers","tag-fog","tag-mountains","tag-peaceful","tag-snow","tag-snowy","tag-spring","tag-trees","tag-wasatch-mountains","tag-yule"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bright-and-peaceful-yule-mia-mcpherson-7955.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-slG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":119272,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/12\/21\/happy-winter-solstice-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":108976,"position":0},"title":"Happy Winter Solstice 2023","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I look forward to the Winter Solstice each year because it marks when the days start getting longer. 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