{"id":4755,"date":"2011-09-29T06:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2012-01-23T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:15:43","slug":"michaelmasrosh-hashanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4755","title":{"rendered":"Michaelmas\/Rosh Hashanah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Dragon2603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4756\" title=\"Dragon2603\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Dragon2603.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon2603\" width=\"441\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Dragon2603.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Dragon2603-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year two festivals of autumn fall upon the same day: Michaelmas, the feast of the dragon-conquering St. Michael the Archangel, and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. And appropriately so, since both, although from different spiritual traditions, call for reflection upon and atonement for our deeds and misdeeds of the past year and a courageous awakening to our innermost thoughts. The days now grow shorter, and as we head into winter we plan consciously to nurture the light within.<\/p>\n<p>So in our family we honor the season ecumenically, if perhaps sacrilegiously, and don red garments, blow our tofu horn, say special verses and blessings to help us reflect, and share apples dipped in honey and challah baked in the shape of a dragon. A light-filled MichaelmHashanah to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CakeYellowRoses2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4759\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"CakeYellowRoses2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/CakeYellowRoses2.png\" alt=\"CakeYellowRoses2\" width=\"125\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>Dad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year two festivals of autumn fall upon the same day: Michaelmas, the feast of the dragon-conquering St. Michael the Archangel, and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. And appropriately so, since both, although from different spiritual traditions, call for reflection upon and atonement for our deeds and misdeeds of the past year and a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4755\">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":[1],"tags":[123,148,23,39,42],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-autumn","tag-dragon","tag-festival","tag-food","tag-saints"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}