{"id":16574,"date":"2022-01-07T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2022-01-07T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:08:09","slug":"russian-orthodox-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16574","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orthodox Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1076\" height=\"1440\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2974-edited-1440-768x1028.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was having a conversation with a friend just the other day. \u201cThe holidays are over,\u201d she sighed. \u201cNo more excuses to procrastinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be so sure,\u201d I countered. \u201cRemember, you\u2019re talking to the Equal Opportunity Celebrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, so what\u2019s up next?\u201d she asked, grateful for the reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian Orthodox Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussians celebrate Christmas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed they do, every January 7. And it\u2019s pretty cool, especially the ritual of flinging a spoonful of a very special Christmas treat up to the ceiling to see if it sticks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I pointed her to a story that I had written long ago. Precisely the story I\u2019m pointing you to right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?page_id=508\">Read on&#8230;.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russians celebrate Christmas? Indeed they do, every January 7. Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16576,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}