{"id":15216,"date":"2011-11-30T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/?guid=3ef2c34246e1121c149c3c5bc72f655e"},"modified":"2015-08-14T01:38:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:38:56","slug":"st-andrews-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/st-andrews-day\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Andrew&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--uNHCfDSEfY\/TtP_GF8dH-I\/AAAAAAAAByM\/gTbqgcXrfDM\/s1600\/Andrew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--uNHCfDSEfY\/TtP_GF8dH-I\/AAAAAAAAByM\/gTbqgcXrfDM\/s200\/Andrew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Numbered among the Apostles, the brother of Simon Petereventually became the revered patron of both Greece and Scotland where hisfeast day, November 30, remains a kind of national holiday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Andrew (c. 10-60) may well have been,as tradition asserts, the founder of the church at the site of Constantinople,but he was most assuredly the great reconciler, as Scripture asserts.\u00a0 As a result, his memory is celebratedby a day of forgiveness.\u00a0 Servicesof reconciliation are often followed by a great feast of roasted or smokedbeef, the telling of heroic tales, the reciting epic poetry, and the singing ofgreat ballads.\u00a0 King David ofScotland, son of Malcolm Canmore and Queen. Margaret, codified the day anational holiday in 1125\u2014and so it has been ever since.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5123697-8843140550691441819?l=grantian.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numbered among the Apostles, the brother of Simon Petereventually became the revered patron of both Greece and Scotland where hisfeast day, November 30, remains a kind of national holiday.Andrew (c. 10-60) may well have been,as tradition asserts, the f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,766],"tags":[102,157,270],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grantianflorilegium","category-holidays-and-celebrations","tag-greece","tag-scotland","tag-king-david"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34111,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions\/34111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}