{"id":364,"date":"2021-05-24T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/?p=364"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:15:55","slug":"le-lundi-de-pentecote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/le-lundi-de-pentecote\/","title":{"rendered":"Le lundi de Pentec\u00f4te"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Le mot du jour : &#8220;Lundi de Pentec\u00f4te&#8221;<br>Today in France is another of these multiple holidays that happen along the year, most of the time for religious reasons, but sometimes for secular ones too (like the end of the two World Wars and Labour Day, for example).<br>So today is a religious holiday, the Monday following the &#8220;Pentec\u00f4te&#8221; (Whit Sunday). The Pentec\u00f4te word comes from the Greek pent\u00eakost\u1ec1 h\u00eam\u00e9ra, which means the 50th day (after Easter). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Christian tradition, it celebrates the Holy Spirit being send to the disciples. The celebration itself takes place on the Sunday, but for reasons I don&#8217;t quite understand, some countries, including France, decided to take the day off on Monday too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I am surprised by that, as a country we do love a day off work \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/57\/La_Pentec%C3%B4te.jpg\/280px-La_Pentec%C3%B4te.jpg\" alt=\"La Pentec\u00f4te, Heures d'\u00c9tienne Chevalier, enlumin\u00e9es par Jean Fouquet, mus\u00e9e Cond\u00e9, Chantilly.\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le mot du jour : &#8220;Lundi de Pentec\u00f4te&#8221;Today in France is another of these multiple holidays that happen along the year, most of the time for religious reasons, but sometimes for secular ones too (like the end of the two World Wars and Labour Day, for example).So today is a religious holiday, the Monday following &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/le-lundi-de-pentecote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le lundi de Pentec\u00f4te&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}