{"id":10783,"date":"2025-11-02T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:50:02","slug":"samhain-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/samhain-end-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Samhain &#8212; End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11074\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner.png 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/corned-beef-dinner-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Halfway between Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice, we find ourselves at a &#8220;Cross Quarter&#8221; point in the calendar year approaching Winter. This is the celebration and feast related to ancient Celtic traditions. Samhain (properly pronounced &#8220;Sow-in&#8221; &#8211; Sow, as in the pig, and In, as in a place to stay overnight. <\/p>\n<p>Our feast today consisted of traditional Irish <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251102-Corned-Beef-Dinner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Corned Beef and Cabbage<\/a> with Keto-friendly vegetables. We had an Irish Cocktail on the side. We wish all of you a happy and prosperous Samhain!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/samhain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8846\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/samhain.jpg 318w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/samhain-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway between Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice, we find ourselves at a &#8220;Cross Quarter&#8221; point in the calendar year approaching Winter. This is the celebration and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-dining","category-notions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}