{"id":89,"date":"2002-11-01T00:46:36-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T08:46:36+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2002-11-01T00:46:36-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T08:46:36+00:00","slug":"day-of-the-dead-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/11\/01\/day-of-the-dead-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead&nbsp;Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Apparently today is All Saints&#8217; Day.  I&#8217;ve always known that Hallowe&#8217;en was an abbreviation of <q>All Hallows&#8217; Even<\/q>, but understood the modern version to be essentially <q>All Souls&#8217; Eve<\/q>, or <q>the night before All Souls&#8217; Day<\/q>.  As it turns out, All Souls&#8217; Day is <em>tomorrow<\/em>.  (My friend Murray Watson, former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachforthetop.com\/\">Reach for the Top<\/a> teammate and current Catholic priest, would be so disappointed in me.)<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/halloween.htm\/printable\">How Stuff Works<\/a> has lots of other interesting facts about this time of the year, although they don&#8217;t mention that All Souls&#8217; Day is also known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacnet.org\/assunta\/dead.htm\">Day of the Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>An interesting tangent to this is the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixel.com.mx\/newpage\/noviembre\/muerte\/muerte.html\">calaveras<\/a>, which refers to poetic living obituaries of <q>jovial or satirical tone<\/q>&#8230; making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calaveras.org\/\">Calaveras County, California<\/a> the perfect setting for Mark Twain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boondocksnet.com\/twaintexts\/frog\/\">first book<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Leaping off from there (sorry), it&#8217;s natural that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frogtown.org\/\">Angels Camp, CA<\/a> (aka <q>Frogtown<\/q>) would host an annual <q>Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/q>, but why does the local small town of Ailsa Craig, Ontario, have turtle races (and why are there no useful links for the town or the event)?<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently today is All Saints&#8217; Day. I&#8217;ve always known that Hallowe&#8217;en was an abbreviation of All Hallows&#8217; Even, but understood the modern version to be essentially All Souls&#8217; Eve, or the night before All Souls&#8217; Day. As it turns out, All Souls&#8217; Day is tomorrow. (My friend Murray Watson, former Reach for the Top teammate&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}