{"id":120921,"date":"2017-12-30T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=120921"},"modified":"2017-12-30T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T14:55:58","slug":"coal-new-year-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/coal-new-year-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal as new year Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Scotland, the first person who enters the home by crossing the threshold on new year should bring the gift of coal mostly for the host\u2019 fire for good luck.<\/p>\n<p>As per Scottish folklore, first footing tradition brings in good fortune. Ideally, this gift is accompanied by other gifts like salt, shortbread, whiskey and bread bun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-120922 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/937edf7493a38092a52a6649cc7ffc2a921ae947.jpeg\" alt=\" Coal as new year Gift\" width=\"679\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/937edf7493a38092a52a6649cc7ffc2a921ae947.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/937edf7493a38092a52a6649cc7ffc2a921ae947-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>Throwing furniture, dropping a dollop of ice creams and burning scarecrows are some other famous but weird customs followed.<\/p>\n<p>These new year\u2019s eve traditions from across the world are bizarre but they are wonderful as well. So enjoy your last of day of the year with great zeal with various customs and celebrations to welcome the near year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Scotland, the first person who enters the home by crossing the threshold on new year should bring the gift of coal mostly for the host\u2019 fire for good luck. As per Scottish folklore, first footing tradition brings in good fortune. Ideally, this gift is accompanied by other gifts like salt, shortbread, whiskey and bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61976,943,46623,61973,61975,46443,1102,39727,61974],"class_list":["post-120921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bizarre","tag-celebrations","tag-coal","tag-coal-as-new-year-gift","tag-footing","tag-gifts","tag-good","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-folklore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e3-14.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}