{"id":14,"date":"2018-05-01T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:27:38","slug":"a-tribute-to-a-forgotten-may-day-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2018\/05\/01\/a-tribute-to-a-forgotten-may-day-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to a Forgotten May Day Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger we changed this a bit and used tiny cups of candy to leave on the doorsteps of our friends. We&#8217;d ring the doorbell then run and hide so we could watch them pick it up and look for us. It was a fun and innocent thing to do and made our friends feel good.&nbsp; <br \/><span><\/span><span><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/npr-history-dept\/2015\/04\/30\/402817821\/a-forgotten-tradition-may-basket-day\" target=\"_blank\">If a boy hangs a May basket on a girl&#8217;s door and the girl catches him, &#8220;it&#8217;s a great disgrace.&#8221; If a girl is the hanger, &#8220;it disgraces the boy again not to catch her.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy May Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger we changed this a bit and used tiny cups of candy to leave on the doorsteps of our friends. We&#8217;d ring the doorbell then run and hide so we could watch them pick it up and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2018\/05\/01\/a-tribute-to-a-forgotten-may-day-tradition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A Tribute to a Forgotten May Day Tradition<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}