{"id":3137,"date":"2024-02-02T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:29:26","slug":"la-chandeleur-celebrating-french-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/02\/la-chandeleur-celebrating-french-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"La Chandeleur: Celebrating French Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/chand-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3138\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Chandeleur, celebrated on February 2nd, holds a special place in French culture. While it&#8217;s often associated with cr\u00eapes, its origins trace back to some ancient pagan rituals and Christian traditions. Historically, it marked the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, symbolising a transition from the winter season to spring. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/chand-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3139\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nowadays, La Chandeleur is a joyous occasion for families and friends to gather, enjoy cr\u00eapes whilst also wishing for prosperity and good fortune. The round shape and golden colour of cr\u00eapes are said to symbolise the sun and its return after the dark winter months. Both sweet or savoury cr\u00eapes unite the French people during this time in a celebration of hope and renewal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Chandeleur, celebrated on February 2nd, holds a special place in French culture. While it&#8217;s often associated with cr\u00eapes, its origins trace back to some ancient pagan rituals and Christian traditions. Historically, it marked the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, symbolising a transition from the winter season to spring. Nowadays, La &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/02\/la-chandeleur-celebrating-french-tradition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;La Chandeleur: Celebrating French Tradition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}