{"id":146957,"date":"2017-03-17T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=146957"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T06:54:41","slug":"juicy-tidbits-happy-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2017\/03\/17\/juicy-tidbits-happy-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy Tidbits &#8211; Happy St Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Top of the morning to you&#8217; and Happy Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day or St Paddy\u2019s Day, as its affectionately known, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick, the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>St Patrick is one of the world&#8217;s most popular saints and was born in Roman Britain.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Ireland as a slave when he was 14\u00a0or so after being captured by Irish pirates during a raiding party.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day is celebrated worldwide not only by those of Irish descent but by people of all ethnicities.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green.<\/p>\n<p>People celebrate the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and\/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink and attending parades, which have a particularly long history in the United States and in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Here in South Africa we also celebrate the day, with may of us ordering a\u00a0Guinness beer at our local watering hole instead of our usual drinks of choice.<\/p>\n<p>How will you celebrate this day?<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='aba5c429f806ba82de88b4376ac48a40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you be turning the world green today in honour of Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":146959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,508,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,6895],"class_list":["post-146957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-editors-choice","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-saint-patricks-day"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","saint patrick's day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}