{"id":5799,"date":"2012-05-01T06:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:44:41","slug":"here-we-come-a-piping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5799","title":{"rendered":"Here We Come A-Piping"},"content":{"rendered":"

For May Day, a poem for you to chant, and a sketch of the LAST lily-of-the valley in my garden. (They popped out strangely early this year.)<\/p>\n

In some countries, the first of May is a holiday in commemoration of the international labor movement, marked by rallies, marches, and parades in recognition of the worker, sometimes followed by picnics and dancing. This latter activity harkens back to the far more ancient festival of the first of May, which, like Groundhog Day and Dia de los Muertos, falls roughly halfway between an equinox and a solstice.<\/p>\n

For May the first is (what else?!) a happy acknowledgement of the arrival of spring and its attendant burgeoning fertility. At last the winter is truly behind us, and the world is so fresh and green and blooming that sitting indoors at a computer seems an act of madness. Shut it down, doff the heels\/necktie, deck yourself with a crown of flowers and skip about in the gentle spring sunshine, celebrating the world\u2019s inexhaustible and optimistic fruitfulness.<\/p>\n

\"LilyOfValley12\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/em>
\nHere we come a-piping,
\nIn Springtime and in May;
\nGreen fruit a-ripening,
\nAnd Winter fled away.
\nThe Queen she sits upon the strand,
\nFair as lily, white as wand;
\nSeven billows on the sea,
\nHorses riding fast and free,
\nAnd bells beyond the sand.
\n <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Traditional <\/em><\/p>\n

\"CakeLilyValley\"<\/a>Mary<\/p>\n

\"CakeBerries2\"<\/a>Josiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For May Day, a poem for you to chant, and a sketch of the LAST lily-of-the valley in my garden. (They popped out strangely early this year.) In some countries, the first of May is a holiday in commemoration of the international labor movement, marked by rallies, marches, and parades in recognition of the worker,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":[23,76,19,72,3],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-festival","tag-flowers","tag-poem","tag-spring","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","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=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}