{"id":7562,"date":"2024-02-04T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2024-02-04T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:19:09","slug":"imbolc-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/04\/imbolc-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Imbolc &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/imbolc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"91\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3548\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Imbolc Cross-Quarter Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celtic Feast today: Irish Beef Stew with Soda Bread. The stew had low-carb vegetables (i.e. Turnips, not Potatoes, Butternut Squash, not yams, etc.). The Soda Bread was made with Keto-friendly ingredients. The feast was delicious and served with an Irish Coffee on a cool, windy day. Click on the image to open in the image viewer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240204-irish-stew-and-soda-bread.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240204-irish-stew-and-soda-bread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About Imbolc:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Celts celebrated Imbolc as the beginning of Spring. Imbolc corresponds more or less to Groundhog Day in the USA, February 2, when tradition has it that if a sleepy groundhog creeping out of its burrow at dawn sees its shadow, there are 6 more weeks of winter. (If not, we surmise, only 42 days remain.) Christians celebrate this holiday as St. Brigid&#8217;s Day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc Cross-Quarter Day Celtic Feast today: Irish Beef Stew with Soda Bread. The stew had low-carb vegetables (i.e. Turnips, not Potatoes, Butternut Squash, not yams, etc.).&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}