{"id":70848,"date":"2026-02-01T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=70848"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:33:35","slug":"the-first-of-the-seasonal-festival-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-first-of-the-seasonal-festival-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The  first of the seasonal festival days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc a time when the new born lambs<br \/>\nEyes<br \/>\nOn opening see the wintry skies<br \/>\nTheir mothers in milk<br \/>\nA first  creamy meal<br \/>\nThe first festival day<br \/>\nIntrospection and renewal<br \/>\nIs how we reveal<\/p>\n<p>In the earth we see snowdrops<br \/>\nCrocus and more<br \/>\nThe tall daffodils<br \/>\nGolden petals the raw<br \/>\nWinds and the hail<br \/>\nAnd perhaps even snow<br \/>\nA seasonal festival sabatts aglow<\/p>\n<p>With a purposeful energy<br \/>\nBrighid we know<br \/>\nThe goddess looks favourably<br \/>\nOn the livestock below<br \/>\nHalf way between Winter Solstice<br \/>\nAnd Spring<br \/>\nWhere Introspection and Renewal<br \/>\nDoes so surely bring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc a time when the new born lambs Eyes On opening see the wintry skies Their mothers in milk A first creamy meal The first festival day Introspection and renewal Is how we reveal In the earth we see snowdrops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-first-of-the-seasonal-festival-days\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848","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=70848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70849,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70848\/revisions\/70849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}