{"id":1232,"date":"2011-01-06T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:36:21","slug":"dreikonigstag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Dreik\u00f6nigstag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images-13.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1233 alignleft\" title=\"images-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images-13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Epiphany &#8211; the day the three kings visited baby Jesus. Here we celebrate Dreik\u00f6nigstag by eating Dreik\u00f6nigskuchen &#8211; literally three kings cake &#8211; sweet bread covered with sugar and almonds. One of those little balls around the edge always contains the king ( a little plastic man). Somehow it seems my husband always wins and gets to wear the golden crown that comes in the bag with the Dreik\u00f6nigskuchen from the bakery. I guess that means he&#8217;s king for the day. Secretly I think he checks in advance to see where that little guy could have been pushed in&#8230;that&#8217;s my theory anyway. Next year I plan to bake my own&#8230;but that will be another story&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Last night the local kids were out celebrating too. Dressed as kings and carrying stars they rang the bell of every home in town and sang carols and collected money for a good cause. A little band of happy excited faces out in the freezing cold. It&#8217;s a lovely tradition and sure knocks the socks off halloween in my book. It must be a mountain tradition &#8211; and I suspect also one mainly practiced in Catholic Cantons. We certainly never see anything like this in the lowlands.<\/p>\n<p>happy Dreik\u00f6nigstag!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Epiphany &#8211; the day the three kings visited baby Jesus. Here we celebrate Dreik\u00f6nigstag by eating Dreik\u00f6nigskuchen &#8211; literally three kings cake &#8211; sweet bread covered with sugar and almonds. One of those little balls around the edge always contains the king ( a little plastic man). Somehow it seems my husband always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-jS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}