{"id":436,"date":"2008-12-28T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=436"},"modified":"2008-12-28T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:55:53","slug":"swieta-swieta-i-po-swietach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/swieta-swieta-i-po-swietach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u015awi\u0119ta, \u015awi\u0119ta i po \u015awi\u0119tach&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/sale.jpg\" aria-label=\"Sale\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-437\"  alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"291\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/sale.jpg\"><\/a>Soooo\u2026. The shortest day of the year is behind us (that\u2019s a good thing, at least in my book, I like to see daylight for a bit more than just a few hours), Christmas is behind us (that\u2019s a good thing too &#8211; no more carp for at least another year, yay!). Now there\u2019s only New Year\u2019s Eve to look forward too. And what else? Loosing all the weight we\u2019ve gained during the holiday season. Making New Year\u2019s resolutions (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/postanowienia-noworoczne.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">postanowienia noworoczne<\/a><\/strong>), which we won\u2019t stick to anyway. But who does? So what else is there to look forward to? Spring cleaning and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/mycie-okien.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">mycie okien<\/a><\/strong> (window washing)? Ugh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nah, the only one of the bunch that I look forward to is the days getting longer now.<br \/>\nWhen I was a kid, I heard this saying that they\u2019re getting longer like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/days-getting-longer-proverb.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Na Bo\u017ce Narodzenie \u2013 na kurze st\u0105pnienie. Na Nowy Rok \u2013 na barani skok.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It means, more or less, that for Christmas \u2013 like a hen\u2019s step, for New Year\u2019s &#8211; like a ram\u2019s leap. Which means: very little (though I can\u2019t imagine just how big an average hen\u2019s step would be) and quite a lot \u2013 that\u2019s referring to the poor ram leaping, of course.<\/p>\n<p>My friend just gave me a long and interesting (surprise, surprise!) lecture about the ancient pagan Slavic traditions that incorporated themselves neatly into the Christian reality. These hens a-stepping and rams a-leaping supposedly had something to do with it. You know, winter solstice\u2026 In all honesty, what the Slavs (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/slowianie.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">S\u0142owianie<\/a><\/strong>) were doing wasn\u2019t all that different from the stuff practiced by the Celts, and the Vikings, and other old cultures.<\/p>\n<p>But why dwell on old traditions, when we have new traditions to embrace and uphold? After-Christmas sales! According to the site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogdziezaile.pl\/\" target=\"_blank\">cogdziezaile<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/poswiateczne-przeceny.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">po\u015bwi\u0105teczne przeceny<\/a><\/strong> (after-Christmas sales) have already begun. And just like elsewhere in the world, the stores in Poland will do their best to convince customers to part with their hard-earned cash.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogdziezaile.pl\/index.php?n=844\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a list<\/a> in Polish of what (<strong>co<\/strong>), where (<strong>gdzie<\/strong>) and how much (<strong>za ile<\/strong>) off you can expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"225\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2008\/12\/sale.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Soooo\u2026. The shortest day of the year is behind us (that\u2019s a good thing, at least in my book, I like to see daylight for a bit more than just a few hours), Christmas is behind us (that\u2019s a good thing too &#8211; no more carp for at least another year, yay!). Now there\u2019s only&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/swieta-swieta-i-po-swietach\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,7548,3387,306833,7619],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-christmas","tag-przecena","tag-sales","tag-traditions","tag-winter-solstice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}