{"id":1901,"date":"2012-02-22T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2012-02-22T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:33:03","slug":"qotd-holding-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/22\/qotd-holding-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD: Holding fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1902\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/lent.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1902\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/lent-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lent\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/lent-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/lent.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A word cloud of common Lenten offerings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday was President&#8217;s Day, but was also Shrove Monday, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collops\">Collops Monday<\/a>, when traditionally, the last slices (collops) of meat were cooked and served before the Lenten fast. Bacon and eggs would have been a Collops Monday breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>And yesterday was Shrove Tuesday, also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pancake_Day\">Pancake Day<\/a>, and Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), and Carnival (from <em>carne levare<\/em>, to take away meat). Pancakes are made from other ingredients often restricted during Lent: sugar, flour, eggs and oil.<\/p>\n<p>And today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the forty-day Lenten season of fasting, leading up to Easter. Today&#8217;s question of the day is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you observe the Lenten fast, what delicacies\/luxuries\/habits are you sacrificing this season?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s question of the day is: If you observe the Lenten fast, what delicacies\/luxuries\/habits are you sacrificing this season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}