{"id":2280,"date":"2016-11-27T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T11:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2016-11-27T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T11:12:53","slug":"penkhull-wassail-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/11\/27\/penkhull-wassail-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Penkhull Wassail 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/553471604846072\/\">Penkhull Wassail<\/a> and a processional Morris in January.  Apple and fruit-tree wassailing is an ancient tradition, taking the form of a New Year procession. I was pleased to see it revived recently in Stoke-on-Trent, and it&#8217;s happening again in January 2017. Traditionally, the apple and fruit trees of a district are each visited in turn, on foot. The men sing to them, toast their health in cider and the boys tap their trunks with whippy sticks in a sun-wise direction, in order to \u2018wake up\u2019 the trees and \u2018turn them back toward life\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wassail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wassail.jpg?w=107\" alt=\"wassail\" width=\"107\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nArt by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steve.shaw.984\">Steve Shaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penkhull Wassail and a processional Morris in January. Apple and fruit-tree wassailing is an ancient tradition, taking the form of a New Year procession. I was pleased to see it revived recently in Stoke-on-Trent, and it&#8217;s happening again in January 2017. Traditionally, the apple and fruit trees of a district are each visited in turn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}