{"id":24229,"date":"2010-12-22T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T07:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2010-12-22T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T23:50:36","slug":"the-feast-of-saturnalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24229","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of Saturnalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulbommer.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/advent-calendar-17th-dec-saturnalia.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bommer_Saturnalia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by drunken orgies, tomfoolery and reversal of social roles&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturnalia\">-Wiki<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saturnalia was the already-established Roman holiday which seemed to be the best choice for celebrating Christmas. Since no one knew exactly when Christ was born, Saturnalia fit the bill. <\/p>\n<p>Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/15205\/saturnalia_the_reason_we_celebrate.html?cat=37\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> More <a href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/~grout\/encyclopaedia_romana\/calendar\/saturnalia.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Hippie pagan comic strip video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/6b4130b730\/saturnalia-from-gypsyfaerie\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/paulbommer.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/advent-calendar-17th-dec-saturnalia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Bommer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via Jeanne Mehallo<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"The Feast of Saturnalia\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24229\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals. It was marked by drunken orgies, tomfoolery and reversal of social roles&#8217; -Wiki Saturnalia was the already-established Roman holiday which seemed to be the best choice for celebrating Christmas. Since no one knew exactly when Christ was born, Saturnalia fit the bill. Article here. More here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24251,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions\/24251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}