{"id":94902,"date":"2024-12-12T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/12\/12\/the-origins-of-christmas-caroling-20241211-0440-244268\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-12-12T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2027-10-28T05:06:09","slug":"the-origins-of-christmas-caroling-20241211-0440-244268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/12\/12\/the-origins-of-christmas-caroling-20241211-0440-244268\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"The origins of Christmas caroling"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festive nature of the holiday season makes it an ideal time to sing, especially in groups. Perhaps it\u2019s no surprise then that caroling, a tradition that dates back many centuries, ultimately collided with Christmas.<br \/>\n\t  Caroling and Christmas caroling  are two different things. According to History.org, the origins  of modern Christmas caroling  can be traced to wassailing, a term that has evolved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95169,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94902\/revisions\/95169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=94902"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=94902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}