{"id":709,"date":"2012-03-20T20:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2012-03-20T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:22:35","slug":"drowning-of-marzanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Drowning of Marzanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Poland and a few other slavic countries, the welcome Spring by celebrating the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marzanna\">drowning (or burning) of Marzanna (the Frost Maiden)<\/a>&#8212;<em>topienie Marzanny<\/em> in Polish. The customs vary from place to place but in general, young children make a straw or rag effigy of a figure called Marzanna, symbolizing winter. Since today is the vernal equinox, the first day of Spring, this custom celebrates the end of the dark and cold days of winter and a welcoming in of Spring with its flowers, warmer weather, and planting. <\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this custom from the link above, or from this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/easteuropeanfood.about.com\/od\/holidaysfestivals\/a\/The-Drowning-Of-Marzanna-Or-Frost-Maiden-Topienie-Marzanny.htm?nl=1\">http:\/\/easteuropeanfood.about.com\/od\/holidaysfestivals\/a\/The-Drowning-Of-Marzanna-Or-Frost-Maiden-Topienie-Marzanny.htm?nl=1<\/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 and a few other slavic countries, the welcome Spring by celebrating the drowning (or burning) of Marzanna (the Frost Maiden)&#8212;topienie Marzanny in Polish. The customs vary from place to place but in general, young children make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=709\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"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\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}