{"id":316,"date":"2008-11-02T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=316"},"modified":"2014-06-10T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:46:56","slug":"all-saints-day-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/all-saints-day-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints&#8217; Day in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the entire Poland celebrated the holiday of All Saints\u2019 Day (<strong>Wszystkich \u015awi\u0119tych<\/strong>) and initially, I wasn\u2019t going to write about it. I&#8217;ve always found this occasion to be totally and utterly depressing, regardless of how beautiful all those flickering candles may look. There is something about it that I just can\u2019t wrap my mind around \u2013 definitely not my kind of religious celebration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg\" aria-label=\"800px Wszystkich Swietych Cmentarz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317\"  alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz-350x238.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the Catholic follow up to All Saints\u2019 called All Souls&#8217; Day (<strong>Zaduszki<\/strong>), which commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet been purified and reached heaven.<\/p>\n<p>So why am I writing about it? This morning a friend started to ask me questions about All Saints\u2019 Day and I realized that to be perfectly honest, I knew very little about this holiday.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I always tried to come up with excuses to stay home and not participate \u2013 there was always a math test I needed to study for, or a history paper I had to write, which meant that I could sit in front of the TV with a bag of candy while others were scrubbing graves and listening to extremely boring sermons about damnation, repentance and eternal life. The candles bit was fun, but since I had a somewhat dangerous pyro streak, I was not allowed to play with them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for you, this guy has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/scatts\/warsawgraves\" target=\"_blank\">great gallery of Polish cemetery photos<\/a> and a lovely description of the <strong>Pow\u0105zki Cmentarz<\/strong> in Warsaw. Go take a look, it\u2019s definitely worth it!<\/p>\n<p><em>photo: Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz-350x238.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz-350x238.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/11\/800px-wszystkich_swietych_cmentarz.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Yesterday the entire Poland celebrated the holiday of All Saints\u2019 Day (Wszystkich \u015awi\u0119tych) and initially, I wasn\u2019t going to write about it. I&#8217;ve always found this occasion to be totally and utterly depressing, regardless of how beautiful all those flickering candles may look. There is something about it that I just can\u2019t wrap my mind&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/all-saints-day-in-poland\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7327,7356,3879],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-all-saints-day","tag-cemetery","tag-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}