{"id":523,"date":"2009-04-11T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=523"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T01:15:33","slug":"polish-easter-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/polish-easter-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Easter Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Easter day is almost here. And before you start celebrating (if you do Easter), here are a few things to remember about <strong>Wielkanoc<\/strong> in Poland:<\/p>\n<p>1. It\u2019s a two-day holiday and people go to church on both days.<br \/>\n2. Food is a major Easter feature (but I guess the same can be said about all Polish celebrations) and you just can\u2019t have this occasion without eggs. That\u2019s one constant throughout the country, because when it comes to other foods on your Easter table, they can vary according to the region. In some parts of Poland people enjoy this awful duck blood soup (<strong>czernina<\/strong>). I know it can be made with other kinds of blood but my great-aunt used to make it with duck blood). In some regions of the country, people will eat rabbit, but in others they might prefer lamb. In my family, it was just \u201cmeat\u201d and I\u2019m not really sure what it used to be when it was alive. I didn\u2019t like the taste either way.<\/p>\n<p>3. You can\u2019t have Easter without <strong>babka wielkanocna<\/strong> (Easter cake) and those can also vary depending on the region. Of course, if you\u2019re not a fan of <strong>babka<\/strong> (and I\u2019m not), there\u2019s plenty of other cakes to choose from. My personal favorite is <strong>makowiec<\/strong> (poppy seed roll) the way my grandma used to make it. Yum!!! (Please, no goofy jokes about poppy seeds here, I am fully aware that <strong>makowiec<\/strong> is off limits in many places in the world \u2013 Singapore and Dubai immediately come to mind).<\/p>\n<p>4. And then you have Easter Monday, known in Poland as <strong>\u015amingus Dyngus<\/strong>. This is basically an officially\u00a0 sanctioned occasion to pour copious amounts of cold water on people you know, and on some you don\u2019t know. I hate it. This is one Polish tradition that I haven\u2019t told my foreign family about. And I hope they\u2019ll stay unaware of it for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>So, enjoy your holidays! And <strong>mokrego dyngusa<\/strong>!!! Get out your water guns and have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Easter day is almost here. And before you start celebrating (if you do Easter), here are a few things to remember about Wielkanoc in Poland: 1. It\u2019s a two-day holiday and people go to church on both days. 2. Food is a major Easter feature (but I guess the same can be said about&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/polish-easter-monday\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3167,7385,7617],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-easter","tag-easter-monday","tag-wielkanoc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}