{"id":369,"date":"2008-05-01T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-05-01T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:57:22","slug":"the-rites-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2008\/05\/01\/the-rites-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rites of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1st May &#8211; La F\u00eate du Muguet and Beltaine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/la-fete-du-muguet-par-myrea-pettit-lily-of-the-valley-with-short-tailed-blue-butterfly-may1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-370\" title=\"la-fete-du-muguet-par-myrea-pettit-lily-of-the-valley-with-short-tailed-blue-butterfly-may1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/la-fete-du-muguet-par-myrea-pettit-lily-of-the-valley-with-short-tailed-blue-butterfly-may1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n1st May is <a title=\"Cou Cou\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/may_day.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;La F\u00eate du Muguet&#8217;<\/a> the tradition in France is to give the ones you love a little bouquet of Lily-of-the-valley, for good luck and to celebrate the arrival of spring, it is also the time to celebrate Beltaine the Pagan festival to celebrate the rebirth of life. <a title=\"Pick me\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/flowergarden\/flowergarden.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Grow and pick some wildflowers here<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"..\/..\/flowergarden\/flowergarden.shtml\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st May &#8211; La F\u00eate du Muguet and Beltaine 1st May is &#8216;La F\u00eate du Muguet&#8217; the tradition in France is to give the ones you love a little bouquet of Lily-of-the-valley, for good luck and to celebrate the arrival of spring, it is also the time to celebrate Beltaine the Pagan festival to celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}