{"id":888,"date":"2006-02-02T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/02\/888\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:19:48","slug":"888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/888\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who just KNEW somewhere in your heart that today was about more than some rodent in Pennsylvania&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><font size=\"5\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Happy Imbolc!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms;\"><br \/><font size=\"4\"><br \/>\n&#8230;also called Oimelg by the Druids (pronounced Imm &#8211; olg), Candlemas by<br \/>\nthe English, and other names throughout the world.&nbsp; This is a<br \/>\nmajor holiday in nearly all pagan calendars, a &#8220;cross-quarter&#8221;<br \/>\nday.&nbsp; Quarter days are the equinoxes and solstices &#8212;<br \/>\ncross-quarter days are the High Holidays, the heart of each<br \/>\nseason.&nbsp; Imbolc is the time when it becomes clear that the Sun is<br \/>\nreturning and the days are lengthening.&nbsp; It is traditional to<br \/>\nlight all your candles tonight and burn them all night or until they<br \/>\nburn out, to show the Sun what light is and how much you yearn for it.<\/p>\n<p>Since candles are mostly (especially traditionally) made of fat, this<br \/>\nmeans that you are burning all the fat in your house (WeightWatchers,<br \/>\ntake note!) and will then go out and replace it.&nbsp; Can you say<br \/>\n&#8220;Mardi Gras&#8221; boys and girls?&nbsp; I knew you could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let us rejoice!&nbsp; The Sun is coming back!<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who just KNEW somewhere in your heart that today was about more than some rodent in Pennsylvania&#8230; Happy Imbolc! &#8230;also called Oimelg by the Druids (pronounced Imm &#8211; olg), Candlemas by the English, and other names throughout the world.&nbsp; This is a major holiday in nearly all pagan calendars, a &#8220;cross-quarter&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}