{"id":2399,"date":"2022-12-15T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:41:29","slug":"yule-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Yule 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121522_1741_Yule20231.png\" alt=\"\"\/>As the winter solstice approaches on December 21, my husband\/tech advisor and I are getting ready. We like to observe it every year.\n<\/p>\n<p>We share Scandinavian heritage, and we enjoy imagining the old days when our ancestors must have celebrated the holiday in a big way. The pagans called it Yule. It was the go-to festival for the Vikings and the Germanic tribes.\n<\/p>\n<p>They marked this shortest day of the year with animal sacrifices, toasts to the gods, Yule log fires, and lots of feasting. They decorated with evergreen wreaths, mistletoe, and holly.\n<\/p>\n<p>At our house we recreate the holiday, but we tone it down a bit.\n<\/p>\n<p>Our meal will be a delicious cod and bacon stew (a nod to my cod-fishing ancestors) washed down with mead. We will display a Yule log to bring good luck and keep away evil spirits. We may wear our Norwegian sweaters.\n<\/p>\n<p>When the evening ends and we have had our fill, we can look forward to the return of the sun and the lengthening of days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the winter solstice approaches on December 21, my husband\/tech advisor and I are getting ready. We like to observe it every year. We share Scandinavian heritage, and we enjoy imagining the old days when our ancestors must have celebrated the holiday in a big way. The pagans called it Yule. It was the go-to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}