{"id":5647,"date":"2012-05-06T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistswindow.com\/new\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:50:15","slug":"may-day-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/may-day-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely May day flower wreath, or <em>Stephanie<\/em> as they are known in Greece, was a gift from our Athenian neighbours, who accompanied me this week on part of the trial of a new walk.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/our-stephani.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"our-stephani\" width=\"664\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks Sophia for the beautiful and thoughtful gift&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sophias-stephani.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sophias-stephani\" width=\"664\" height=\"672\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s another one she made, on the door of their Athens home&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stephani-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephani-1\" width=\"664\" height=\"752\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and another, snapped by Gregoris in Homatero&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stephani2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephani2\" width=\"664\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and another in Vounaria&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/stephani-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stephani-3\" width=\"664\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as was this beauty &#8211; also in Vounaria village. It&#8217;s traditional here to&#160;gather flowers on May Day, weave them into wreaths (<em>Stephanies)<\/em> and hang them over doorways, fences, gates or balconies.They stay in situ until June 23 &#8211; St. John&#8217;s Eve &#8211; when they are taken down and burnt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely May day flower wreath, or Stephanie as they are known in Greece, was a gift from our Athenian neighbours, who accompanied me this week on part of the trial of a new walk. Many thanks Sophia for the beautiful and thoughtful gift&#8230; here&#8217;s another one she made, on the door of their Athens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}