{"id":9820,"date":"2024-02-04T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:53:15","slug":"imbolc-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2024\/02\/04\/imbolc-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Imbolc – 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imbolc Cross-Quarter Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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About Imbolc:<\/p>\n

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’s Day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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.)....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,43,73,19,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-food-dining","category-holidays","category-retirement","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","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=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}