{"id":6466,"date":"2011-10-02T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T23:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2012-10-16T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:17:49","slug":"how-pumpkin-carving-became-a-halloween-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/how-pumpkin-carving-became-a-halloween-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pumpkin Carving Became a Halloween Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/why-we-pumpkin-carve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6467\" title=\"why-we-pumpkin-carve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/why-we-pumpkin-carve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/why-we-pumpkin-carve.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/why-we-pumpkin-carve-340x322.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin carving being associated with Halloween comes from a method used by the Celts to ward off evil spirits during Samuin (a festival where many of the traditions of Halloween come from).\u00a0 The Celts would hollow out turnips, then carve faces in them and place candles inside.\u00a0 The turnips were then either placed in the windows, to keep evil spirits from entering a home, or carried around as lanterns.\u00a0 This tradition eventually melded with the North American tradition of carving pumpkins.\u00a0 At this point, the carving of pumpkins, which had been around in North America before Halloween was popularly introduced, became associated almost exclusively with Halloween (around the 19th century).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/where-the-word-witch-came-from\/\">Sources and Other Interesting Halloween Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Pumpkin carving being associated with Halloween comes from a method used by the Celts to ward off evil spirits during Samuin (a festival where many of the traditions of Halloween come from).\u00a0 The Celts would hollow out turnips, then carve faces in them and place candles inside.\u00a0 The turnips were then either placed in the windows, to keep evil [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2980,2979,689],"tags":[848,898,899,897],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween-holiday-facts-2","category-holiday-facts-2","category-quick-facts","tag-holiday-traditions","tag-pumpkin-carving-history","tag-pumpkin-carving-origin","tag-pumpkin-carving-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14079,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/14079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}