{"id":3339,"date":"2018-04-02T00:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2018-04-02T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:57:24","slug":"st-patrick-and-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/st-patrick-and-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick and Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A Light in the Darkness<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3343\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fire-2197606_640-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>One of my favorite stories about St. Patrick revolves around Easter. In ancient Ireland feast days were launched the night before with a massive fire. In a world without electricity, an outdoor fire must have been visible for miles, a call to the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The story says that on the eve of the festival of Beltane, the king ordered all fires to be extinguished so that only his ceremonial fire burned on the Hill of Slane.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2223\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2223\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Hill-of-Slane-Patrick-labeled-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the Hill of Slane<br \/>From My Visit photo\u00a9Cindy Thomson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, it was also Easter and Patrick and his followers lit their Easter fire. As dark as the night was, that fire could easily be spotted, so the king sent his men to punish these lawbreakers. But God was on Patrick&#8217;s side, and he and his followers turned into a herd of deer (shapeshifting was a talent for powerful druids, thus the tale gave a nod to the influence Patrick had.) Thus concealed, Patrick and his followers passed by the army without harm.<\/p>\n<p>This story is beautifully told by John Doan. Watch it below and enjoy his music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUkxR21OVx0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Light in the Darkness One of my favorite stories about St. Patrick revolves around Easter. In ancient Ireland feast days were launched the night before with a massive fire. In a world without electricity, an outdoor fire must have been visible for miles, a call to the gathering. The story says that on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,80,6,157,1],"tags":[266,267,268],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-ireland","category-festivals","category-ireland","category-st-patrick","category-uncategorized","tag-john-doan","tag-legends","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}