{"id":285,"date":"2007-02-19T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=285"},"modified":"2007-02-19T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T20:40:00","slug":"a-lucky-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-lucky-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"A lucky pig?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xuan_xu\/385738622\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/385738622_e993cbd48d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xuan_xu\/385738622\/\">a lucky pig<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/xuan_xu\/\">xuan xu<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was born in the year of the Metal Pig, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/asia\/article2283920.ece\">we&#8217;ve just entered the year of the pig again<\/a>.<br \/>To quote from the article: &#8220;Astrologers say that people born during the Year of the Pig are lucky, as a pig is a symbol of plenty, as well as of fertility, and many get married during the Year of the Pig to guarantee healthy, wealthy offspring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t believe in Chinese astrology any more than I believe in the European equivalent, it&#8217;s a rather nice, cosy feeling to believe I have a lucky, fertile year ahead of me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a lucky pig Originally uploaded by xuan xu. I was born in the year of the Metal Pig, and we&#8217;ve just entered the year of the pig again.To quote from the article: &#8220;Astrologers say that people born during the Year of the Pig are lucky, as a pig is a symbol of plenty, as well as of fertility, and many get married during the Year of the Pig to guarantee healthy, wealthy offspring.&#8221; Although I don&#8217;t believe in Chinese astrology any more than I believe in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}