{"id":169,"date":"2005-12-03T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/december-third\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T20:45:56","slug":"december-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/03\/december-third\/","title":{"rendered":"December Third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True or False: The mistletoe, a well-known symbol of love at Christmas, is poisonous.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: True. According to Dictionary.com, it is &#8220;a European semiparasitic green shrub (Viscum album) having somewhat poisonous leaves, stems, and waxy-white glutinous berries that have been used in folk medicine.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Custom has it that at Christmas time, you would hang a sprig of mistletoe over the doorway. A young lady standing under it cannot refuse to be kissed. Such a kiss could mean the start of a romance. If the girl is not kissed, she cannot expect not to marry the following year.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever been kissed under a mistletoe. I have a great husband for 21 years. Maybe I&#8217;m missing something. Quick, someone get me some mistletoe.<\/p>\n<p>There is a greek goddess type of legend associated with the mistletoe. I will write about it in my &#8220;Origin of Christmas&#8221; piece one day, hopefully before the 25th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True or False: The mistletoe, a well-known symbol of love at Christmas, is poisonous. Answer: True. According to Dictionary.com, it is &#8220;a European semiparasitic green shrub (Viscum album) having somewhat poisonous leaves, stems, and waxy-white glutinous berries that have been used in folk medicine.&#8221; Custom has it that at Christmas time, you would hang a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}