{"id":2962,"date":"2014-12-24T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2014-12-24T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:58:19","slug":"did-you-know-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/did-you-know-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/livingincolormom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/P1010609.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The British wear paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner.\u00a0The tradition of wearing hats at parties goes back to the Roman Saturnalia celebrations (celebrated around the 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of December) when the participants also wore hats.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of wearing a paper crown may have originated from Twelfth Night celebrations, where a King or Queen was appointed to look over the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6c\/ChristmasCrackers_2.jpg\" width=\"403\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The paper crown hats they wear today are found inside the Christmas Crackers. Crackers are very traditional items to have at Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02435\/crackers_2435260b.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The cracker is pulled by two people and each one contains a small toy, a joke or motto, and a tissue-paper crown hat, usually a crown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.squawkfox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/christmas-cracker-gifts.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British wear paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner.\u00a0The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[977,43,1172,1171,1173,499,1176,1175,1177,1174],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-british","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-crackers","tag-christmas-crowns","tag-christmas-dinner","tag-england","tag-paper-crown-hats","tag-roman-saturnalia-celebrations","tag-s","tag-twelfth-night-celebrations","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}