{"id":5565,"date":"2023-05-01T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:27:24","slug":"5-things-to-do-to-celebrate-beltane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/5-things-to-do-to-celebrate-beltane\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things To Do To Celebrate Beltane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s May 1, the Celtic festival of Beltane, May Day, and in Ireland the first day of summer. There are traditional ways to celebrate: dance around a May pole, make a basket of flowers and leave it\u00a0anonymously\u00a0on your neighbor’s door….But who does that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how do you celebrate? Here are five ideas for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Why not leave your May Day basket for someone who will truly appreciate it? If that really is your neighbor, great. But what about a nursing home? The overworked nurses at a hospital? Use your imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. It’s the end of winter! Get in touch with your ancient roots and build your own\u00a0version\u00a0of a bonfire. Invite that neighbor or family or friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Cailin Grant-Jansen<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3. The American version of this festival? Go to a baseball game. What says summer better than baseball?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. It’s also International Worker’s Day. In the US we recognize workers on Labor Day in September, but for other countries, May 1 is the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by\u00a0Joe Holland<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s May 1, the Celtic festival of Beltane, May Day, and in Ireland the first day of summer. There are traditional ways to celebrate: dance around a May pole, make a basket of flowers and leave it\u00a0anonymously\u00a0on your neighbor’s door….But who does that? So, how do you celebrate? Here are five ideas for you: 1….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[524,525],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltane","tag-beltane","tag-may-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","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=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}