{"id":3655,"date":"2012-10-29T22:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2012-10-31T20:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:19:40","slug":"what-does-halloween-actually-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/what-does-halloween-actually-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Halloween Actually Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween was introduced in Mainland Europe not before a few years ago, probably in order to give retail revenue a\u00a0 boost, similar to the introduction of Christmas in China.<\/p>\n<p>So many, all over non English-speaking Europe might not know, where the word Halloween originates from.<\/p>\n<p>The term <em>Halloween,<\/em> in its actual meaning, is supposed to announce the beginnig of winter, <em>Nov 1st<\/em> being <em>All Saints&#8216; Day<\/em> or<em> All Hallows&#8216; Day<\/em>, <em>Okt. 31st<\/em>, therefore, being <em>All Hallows&#8216; Eve<\/em><em> <\/em>shortened to <em>Halloween<\/em>, i.e. the <em>evening<\/em> before <em>All Hallows&#8216; Day<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween was introduced in Mainland Europe not before a few years ago, probably in order to give retail revenue a\u00a0 boost, similar to the introduction of Christmas in China. So many, all over non English-speaking Europe might not know, where the word Halloween originates from. The term Halloween, in its actual meaning, is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interkulturelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}