{"id":11870,"date":"2019-12-18T07:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2019-12-18T05:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T10:08:42","slug":"what-modern-day-christmas-custom-is-borrowed-from-ancient-romes-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/impossible-question\/2019\/12\/what-modern-day-christmas-custom-is-borrowed-from-ancient-romes-new-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"What Modern-day Christmas Custom Is Borrowed From Ancient Rome\u2019s New Year Celebration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANSWER &#8211;<\/strong> Putting up mistletoe.<\/p>\n<p>[It was part of \u201cSaturnalia\u201d, the week-long festival honoring Saturn the planter god. The event also initiated the lasting traditions of exchanging gifts, illuminating lights, and closing businesses.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQn3NC3iey0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Impossible Question ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impossible-question"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 17:31:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/impossible-question\/2019\/12\/what-modern-day-christmas-custom-is-borrowed-from-ancient-romes-new-year-celebration\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}