{"id":85431,"date":"2015-04-05T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=85431"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T08:31:42","slug":"easter-is-full-of-bunnies-eggs-and-lambs-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/05\/easter-is-full-of-bunnies-eggs-and-lambs-but-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter is full of bunnies, eggs and lambs, but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bunnies, and lambs are often associated with Easter because most babies of the animals are born in Spring, which is Easter in the Northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>In Pagan times, like eggs, rabbits and hares were signs of good luck and new life.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The early Christians took over the meaning of new life because it helped them remember Jesus being raised from the dead and having new life.<\/p>\n<p>The lamb is a symbol of Jesus in the Bible as He was called &#8216;the Lamb of God&#8217;.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This is because lambs were and are still used in the Jewish faith as a sacrifice for people&#8217;s sins and wrong doings.<\/p>\n<p>In many countries, lamb is eaten as the main Easter day\u00a0meal.<\/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='b30c5a7870fbc95c66810d556e92f625'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning behind the eggs, bunnies and lambs seen during the Easter season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":85432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[977,8297,1012,3217,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-85431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-easter","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["children","community","East Rand","easter","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85431","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=85431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}