{"id":230399,"date":"2019-03-14T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=230399"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:29:35","slug":"kathara-deftera-national-holiday-across-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/kathara-deftera-national-holiday-across-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathara Deftera, National Holiday across Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clean Monday (Kathara Deftera), a public holiday in Greece, is the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This first day of Great Lent is called &#8220;Clean Monday&#8221; because Christians should begin the holy season with \u201eclean hearts and good intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clean Monday is a day where families and friends celebrate with outdoor excursions, delicious fasting foods, as well as the widespread custom of flying kites.<\/p>\n<p>By sending a kite up, man tries to communicate with God. And the higher the kite goes, the closer the person comes to God.<\/p>\n<p>The kite carries the human spirit and brings it closer to the Creator.<\/p>\n<p>Clean Monday was declared a national holiday in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Public Domain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean Monday (Kathara Deftera), a public holiday in Greece, is the first day of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church. This first day of Great Lent is called &#8220;Clean Monday&#8221; because Christians should begin the holy season with \u201eclean hearts and good intentions.\u201d Clean Monday is a day where families and friends celebrate with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":230385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":230385,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":836,"height":534,"file":"2019\/03\/greece2.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"greece2-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/greece2-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":230399,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/greece2.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230399\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=230399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230399\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230385\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=230399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=230399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=230399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}