{"id":26577,"date":"2017-12-05T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:47:28","slug":"english-history-what-does-wassail-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-history-what-does-wassail-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English, history: what does <i>wassail<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor shares the meaning of <em>wassail<\/em> and its holiday connection.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"color:#55ff55;background-color:#ff5555;font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">wassail<\/span> (verb): to celebrate with drinking<\/p>\n<p>In the Yule celebrations, people would not only wassail each other, but also crops and trees.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wicca.com\/celtic\/akasha\/yule.htm\">wicca.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor shares the meaning of wassail and its holiday connection. wassail (verb): to celebrate with drinking In the Yule celebrations, people would not only wassail each other, but also crops and trees. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-history-what-does-wassail-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, history: what does <i>wassail<\/i> mean?<\/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":[5,2209],"tags":[2625,2624],"class_list":["post-26577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-history","tag-holiday-connection-to-wassail","tag-what-does-wassail-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577","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=26577"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26609,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions\/26609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}