{"id":803,"date":"2012-12-09T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T08:20:00","slug":"counting-the-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/12\/09\/counting-the-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting the days\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys.png\" aria-label=\"Kalenderlys 165x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-805\"  alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys-165x300.png\"><\/a>It\u2019s Christmas time again! Danes of all ages are looking forward to\u00a0<strong>juleaften\u00a0<\/strong>(Christmas Eve, December 24th). Children\u00a0<strong>gl\u00e6der sig til at f\u00e5 julegaver\u00a0<\/strong>(are looking forward to getting Christmas gifts), while a lot of adults can\u2019t wait for the stress of the annual\u00a0<strong>julehandel<\/strong>\u00a0(Christmas shopping) to simmer down. Keeping a\u00a0<strong>julekalender<\/strong>\u00a0(Christmas calendar) is an excellent way to keep track of the countdown. A\u00a0<strong>julekalender<\/strong>\u00a0is basically a system of 24 \u201dsomethings\u201d (gifts, doors etc.) that represent the 24 first days of\u00a0<strong>december\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 each day a new \u201dsomething\u201d is opened or cracked. Sometimes an\u00a0<strong>overraskelse<\/strong>\u00a0(surprise) may appear! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s zoom in on some of the different kinds of\u00a0<strong>julekalendere<\/strong>\u00a0that are in use in Denmark:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a\u00a0<strong>kalenderlys<\/strong>\u00a0(calendar candle) is a candle with the numbers 1\u201324 printed on it, each day you light it and take your time to watch the flame while the day is slowly melting away\u2026<\/li>\n<li>a\u00a0<strong>chokoladekalender<\/strong>\u00a0(chocolate calendar) is, well, a cardboard calendar with a piece of chocolate hidden behind each\u00a0<strong>luge<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>l\u00e5ge<\/strong>\u00a0(both meaning \u2019gate\u2019 or \u2019lid\u2019). Usually, the chocolate pieces have been decorated with\u00a0<strong>klokker<\/strong>\u00a0(bells),\u00a0<strong>gaver<\/strong>\u00a0(presents, parcels),\u00a0<strong>juletr\u00e6er\u00a0<\/strong>(Christmas trees) and other things associated with Christmas. Don\u2019t expect too much from the\u00a0<strong>chokolade<\/strong>\u00a0[shokoLATHeh], which is often very sugary.<\/li>\n<li>a\u00a0<strong>julekalender<\/strong>\u00a0as such is usually understood to be a carton calendar with hidden pictures or words that appear when you open the lids. It is often sold as merchandise accompanying televised\u00a0<strong>julekalendere<\/strong>, where a story is being told throughout 24 episodes. One of the most popular \u201dtv Christmas calendars\u201d is\u00a0<strong><a title=\"The One and Only Julekalender\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2011\/12\/20\/the-one-and-only-julekalender\/\">The Julekalender<\/a><\/strong>, where some of the main characters speak in a mixture of Danish and English\u2026<\/li>\n<li>in a\u00a0<strong>pakkekalender<\/strong>\u00a0you get a small\u00a0<strong>pakke<\/strong>\u00a0(parcel) every day. Many\u00a0<strong>for\u00e6ldre<\/strong>\u00a0(parents) make\u00a0<strong>pakkekalendere<\/strong>\u00a0for their\u00a0<strong>b\u00f8rn<\/strong>\u00a0(children), buying small things that they wrap in\u00a0<strong>gavepapir<\/strong>\u00a0(gift-wrapping paper) and arrange in some fancy way (like putting them in compartmented boxes or hanging them in a sheaf). In that way, the wait for the real\u00a0<strong>julegaver<\/strong>\u00a0won\u2019t be that unbearable\u2026\n<p><div id=\"attachment_804\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/chokoladekalender.jpg\" aria-label=\"Chokoladekalender 220x300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-804\"  alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/chokoladekalender-220x300.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chokoladekalender\u2026<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"193\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys-193x350.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys-193x350.png 193w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys-768x1390.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys-566x1024.png 566w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/12\/kalenderlys.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><p>It\u2019s Christmas time again! Danes of all ages are looking forward to\u00a0juleaften\u00a0(Christmas Eve, December 24th). Children\u00a0gl\u00e6der sig til at f\u00e5 julegaver\u00a0(are looking forward to getting Christmas gifts), while a lot of adults can\u2019t wait for the stress of the annual\u00a0julehandel\u00a0(Christmas shopping) to simmer down. Keeping a\u00a0julekalender\u00a0(Christmas calendar) is an excellent way to keep track of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/12\/09\/counting-the-days\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,913],"tags":[2007,43,3245,269415,269690],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-traditions","tag-chocolate","tag-christmas","tag-jul","tag-julekalender","tag-pakkekalender"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}