{"id":62021,"date":"2023-12-28T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=62021"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:14:45","slug":"mari-lwyd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/mari-lwyd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mari Lwyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We owe it to Simon<br \/>\nA Druidic man<br \/>\nWho loves Wassailing<br \/>\nAnd has many a fan<br \/>\nSouth Wales old traditions<br \/>\nOf visiting those<br \/>\nGroups bands of players<br \/>\nWith bells on their toes<br \/>\nAn old grey mare<br \/>\nAn eponymous horse<br \/>\nA skull a sack cloth<br \/>\nA yuletide force<br \/>\nVisiting ale houses<br \/>\nAnd richer folk<br \/>\nHanding out booze<br \/>\nIt\u2019s more than a joke<br \/>\nIt\u2019s tradition<br \/>\nFor Christmas and the New year<br \/>\nPwnco is noted<br \/>\nand all hold it dear<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s saying aloud<br \/>\nBe in good health<br \/>\nIn <\/p>\n<p>It began long ago<br \/>\nPractised with stealth<br \/>\nOffering wassailing liquor<br \/>\nAnd joy<br \/>\nA party atmosphere<br \/>\nPeople employ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We owe it to Simon A Druidic man Who loves Wassailing And has many a fan South Wales old traditions Of visiting those Groups bands of players With bells on their toes An old grey mare An eponymous horse A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/12\/mari-lwyd-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","category-where-friends-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62024,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62021\/revisions\/62024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}