{"id":8,"date":"2007-10-31T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Wordpress\/EverydaySpirituality\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-10-31T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T10:46:00","slug":"happy-samhain-remembering-spiritual-festivals-with-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":">Happy Samhain!: remembering spiritual festivals with a difference&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/Rz2TreNCQkI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/aLf4b9M4tOg\/s1600-h\/New+Image.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133421525323629122\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxxtSe4hB3w\/Rz2TreNCQkI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/aLf4b9M4tOg\/s320\/New+Image.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div> As you raid the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">storecupboard<\/span> tonight trying to find a few more sweets to hand out to those eager trick-or-<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">treaters<\/span>, spare a thought for where the origins of this festival lie. Halloween has its roots in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/116\/story_11615_1.html\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Samhain<\/span><\/a>, the Pagan festival which marks the spiritual new year, celebrating the dead and the cycle of life.<\/p>\n<p>What &#8216;spiritual&#8217; festivals do you mark and why?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> As you raid the storecupboard tonight trying to find a few more sweets to hand out to those eager trick-or-treaters, spare a thought for where the origins of this festival lie. Halloween has its roots in Samhain, the Pagan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/EverydaySpirituality\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}