{"id":3498,"date":"2010-12-01T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2010-12-03T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:36:44","slug":"light-the-festive-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Light the Festive Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">For tonight, the first night of Hanukkah, a poem.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dec11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3501\" title=\"Dec1\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dec11.jpg\" alt=\"Dec1\" width=\"424\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dec11.jpg 550w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Dec11-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Light the first of eight tonight\u2014<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">the farthest candle to the right.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Light the first and second, too,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">when tomorrow\u2019s day is through.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Then light three, and then light four\u2014<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">every dusk one candle more<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Till all eight burn bright and high,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">honoring a day gone by<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">When the Temple was restored,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">rescued from the Syrian lord,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">And an eight-day feast proclaimed\u2014<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The Festival of Lights\u2014well named<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">To celebrate the joyous day<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">when we regained the right to pray<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">to our one God in our own way.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><em>\u2014Aileen Fisher<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For tonight, the first night of Hanukkah, a poem. Light the first of eight tonight\u2014 the farthest candle to the right. Light the first and second, too, when tomorrow\u2019s day is through. Then light three, and then light four\u2014 every dusk one candle more Till all eight burn bright and high, honoring a day gone<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3498\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,17,19,3],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-festival","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}