{"id":17229,"date":"2016-08-05T06:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17229"},"modified":"2016-08-05T06:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:43:16","slug":"lifestyle-and-seasons-cross-quarter-days-august-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-and-seasons-cross-quarter-days-august-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle and seasons:  cross quarter days:  August 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor discusses the meaning surrounding the cross quarter day August 5.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a couple of posts about cross quarter days (see <a href=\"?p=8266\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"?p=14178\">here<\/a>): they&#8217;re days at mid-season, rather than season boundaries.  Often, a celebration is at or near a cross quarter day, the most famous being Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>In the British Isles, Lammas (England) or Lughnasadh (Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man) are harvest festivals that happen around August 1.  They have pre-Christian origins.<\/p>\n<p>Someone might approach a cross quarter day with a festival, or perhaps more subtly.  Either way, awareness of the seasons allowed humans to become agriculturalists, so continues to be indispensable.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking more about seasonal holidays:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lammas\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lughnasadh\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain#Culture_of_belief\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor discusses the meaning surrounding the cross quarter day August 5. I&#8217;ve written a couple of posts about cross quarter days (see here and here): they&#8217;re days at mid-season, rather than season boundaries. Often, a celebration is at or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-and-seasons-cross-quarter-days-august-5\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle and seasons:  cross quarter days:  August 5<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,181,1056,13],"tags":[1784,494,1783,1781,1782],"class_list":["post-17229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-lifestyle","category-seasons","category-social-studies","tag-august-5","tag-cross-quarter-days","tag-harvest-festival","tag-lammas","tag-lughnasadh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17229"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}