{"id":7772,"date":"2017-12-12T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2017-11-16T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:44:36","slug":"christmas-as-you-dont-know-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/christmas-as-you-dont-know-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, as you don&#8217;t know her"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7784\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Befana#\/media\/File:Befane.jpghttp:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7784\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/christmas-as-you-dont-know-her\/800px-befane\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"800px-Befane\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;By No machine-readable author provided. 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Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=467411&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-274x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-411x600.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-411x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-411x600.jpg 411w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-274x400.jpg 274w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-768x1122.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane-99x144.jpg 99w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Befane.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Square87 CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=467411<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>La Befana is my new favorite winter holiday figure; somehow it is not surprising that across the world, Italy would be the country to have a benevolent winter holiday witch. Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goeuro.co.uk\/blog\/ten-unusual-christmas-traditions\/\">GoEuro there is a tidy little article on Christmas traditions<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaaaaaaand, Spain has a seriously strange and hilarious tradition of feeding a log with a painted face until Christmas and then children beating all the &#8216;poo&#8217; (presents) out of it on Christmas eve. I kind of want to see the kids in action. I think I wouldn&#8217;t be able to stop laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Befana is my new favorite winter holiday figure; somehow it is not surprising that across the world, Italy would be the country to have a benevolent winter holiday witch. Over at GoEuro there is a tidy little article on Christmas traditions around the world. Aaaaaaaaaand, Spain has a seriously strange and hilarious tradition of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/christmas-as-you-dont-know-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas, as you don&#8217;t know her<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[257,48],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-christmas","tag-holiday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8827,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/12\/25\/happy-christmas-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":7772,"position":0},"title":"Happy Christmas","author":"leems","date":"December 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/holidaycard2019.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/holidaycard2019.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/holidaycard2019.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/holidaycard2019.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9048,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/happy-christmas-in-july\/","url_meta":{"origin":7772,"position":1},"title":"Happy Christmas in July!","author":"leems","date":"July 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Wikipedia, Christmas in July can trace its roots back to 1892 in the release of a translation of the French opera, Werther. 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