{"id":3207,"date":"2024-03-01T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:35:38","slug":"st-davids-day-1-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/01\/st-davids-day-1-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"St David&#8217;s Day 1 March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>St David\u2019s Day celebrates the patron saint of Wales on the 1st March each year. Welsh people celebrate by wearing the national emblem of Wales, either a daffodil or a leek.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3208\" width=\"303\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 85vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>St David\u2019s date of birth is unknown but he lived around fifteen centuries ago. He became a monk at a young age and founded a monastery where St David\u2019s Bishop Palace and Cathedral are now. St David\u2019s Day was declared a national day of celebration in the 18th century.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3209\" width=\"307\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-3.jpg 474w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/david-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 85vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In addition to displaying the national symbols, Welsh people celebrate by eating national dishes such as cawl and Welsh cakes. There is also a national parade in Cardiff each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St David\u2019s Day celebrates the patron saint of Wales on the 1st March each year. Welsh people celebrate by wearing the national emblem of Wales, either a daffodil or a leek. St David\u2019s date of birth is unknown but he lived around fifteen centuries ago. He became a monk at a young age and founded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/01\/st-davids-day-1-march-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St David&#8217;s Day 1 March&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","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\/3207","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=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}