{"id":7948,"date":"2016-10-31T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2016-11-03T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:07:30","slug":"daily_716_-_lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/10\/31\/daily_716_-_lantern\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 716 &#8211; lantern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0716_pumpkin.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><br \/>\nOne of this year&#8217;s jack-o-lanterns.<\/p>\n<p>We had surprisingly few trick-or-treaters today. I wonder if we might get another round on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is a confusing holiday for Swedes. We have two All Hallows&#8217; Days: the traditional one on 1st November, and a modern extra one introduced some 60+ years (because we had too few holidays in autumn). That one falls on the Saturday between 31st October and 6th November. They have very similar names (<i>alla helgons dag<\/i> and <i>allhelgonadagen<\/i>) and I can never remember which one is which.<\/p>\n<p>And Halloween is not rooted in Swedish traditions at all &#8211; it&#8217;s a modern import. And there is great confusion and disagreement about when it should be celebrated: on the eve of one of the All Hallows&#8217; Days, but which one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of this year&#8217;s jack-o-lanterns. We had surprisingly few trick-or-treaters today. I wonder if we might get another round on Friday. Halloween is a confusing holiday for Swedes. We have two All Hallows&#8217; Days: the traditional one on 1st November, and a modern extra one introduced some 60+ years (because we had too few holidays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}