{"id":86617,"date":"2019-05-01T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86617"},"modified":"2019-04-27T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T22:17:17","slug":"midweek-open-thread-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86617","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Open Thread: May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86620\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-86620 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Happy-May-Day-Send-Scraps-dot-com-275x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Happy-May-Day-Send-Scraps-dot-com-275x333.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Happy-May-Day-Send-Scraps-dot-com-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Happy-May-Day-Send-Scraps-dot-com.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Happy May Day. (SendScraps.com)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy Hump Day and Happy May Day. We&#8217;re in a cross-quarter day, or a day that&#8217;s &#8220;halfway&#8221; between an equinox and a solstice. Back in the ancient and medieval times, cross-quarter days were used as markers to aid with long range agriculture related planning and activities. Celebrations accompanied cross-quarter days. Groundhog&#8217;s Day is another well known cross-quarter day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Hump Day and Happy May Day. We&#8217;re in a cross-quarter day, or a day that&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Midweek Open Thread: May Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86617\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek Open Thread: May Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}