{"id":682,"date":"2012-01-06T08:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2012-01-06T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:13:08","slug":"trzech-kroli-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Trzech Kroli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Poland it is <em>Trzech Kroli<\/em>, the feast of the Three Kings. It is the twelfth night (<em>Swiety Wieczory<\/em>) of Christmas . Kind of the official end of the Christmas season and the beginning of carnival (<em>zapusty<\/em>) which culminates in Ash Wednesday, I believe&#8211;or maybe it&#8217;s Candlemas Day, Feb. 2nd. At any rate, today is <em>Trzech Kroli<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>On this night Poles take small boxes containing amber, a gold ring, and incense&#8211;and a piece of chalk. With the chalk they will write on their doorposts in honor of the three kings, a hope for protection against illness and misfortune in 2012, They will write:  20 K+M+B 12<\/p>\n<p>They may also bake a <strong>King Cake <\/strong>with a lucky coin or almond baked into it. The one who receives that will host the next party.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the Polish Trzech Kroli customs here: <a href=\"http:\/\/easteuropeanfood.about.com\/od\/polishchristmastraditions\/a\/threekings.htm\">http:\/\/easteuropeanfood.about.com\/od\/polishchristmastraditions\/a\/threekings.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Poland it is Trzech Kroli, the feast of the Three Kings. It is the twelfth night (Swiety Wieczory) of Christmas . Kind of the official end of the Christmas season and the beginning of carnival (zapusty) which culminates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"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":[34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}