{"id":3105,"date":"2013-12-21T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2013-12-21T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:57:36","slug":"50-of-52-weeks-happy-yule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3105","title":{"rendered":"50 of 52 Weeks &#8211; Happy Yule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been crazy, obviously, right? Lack of posts, and slightly off schedule as well&#8230; *sigh* I blame the Yule cookery\/canning\/candy-making faerie that visited!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lost count how many jars of pincherry, mixed berry, chokecherry, wild plum and strawberry jellies I&#8217;ve made. Not jam, jellies. These are clear, beautiful reds and purples. *sigh* It&#8217;s worth the stress! I&#8217;ve also made some chokecherry and mixed berry syrups, for toppings on ice cream, pancakes, waffles, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t post a recipe for the syrups, because it&#8217;s so simple &#8211; mix 4 cups of juice* with 3 cups of sugar, boil for fifteen minutes and pour into hot sealer jars. No need to water bath or process, these should keep up to two years without that.<\/p>\n<p>* The juice is made by boiling the fruit with water to cover, then straining the lot through a jelly bag. Hard work sometimes, but so worth it in the end!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m crunched for time today, but after a misunderstanding on my facebook wall over what I truly meant as a step forward for my girls and I (on our ever-trundling path to independence) I want to say that no disrespect was meant to any other paths followed, or any other holidays celebrated at this time of year. I meant simply that the girls and I would like to be able to celebrate as we see fit, either Yule or Christmas, without pressure to conform to other family and friends plans. Sometimes, we&#8217;d like to be able to make those decisions rather than being told to be somewhere, or don&#8217;t bother with the holidays. <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re our holidays, too.<\/p>\n<p>So, for now, until after our Sabbat tonight and Christmas on Wednesday, I leave you with this ecard. I&#8217;m unsure who to credit exactly, but if anyone knows &#8211; I&#8217;ll be happy to add one later!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-cdyd2iMoiGo\/TvHZ-uzwiTI\/AAAAAAAAAV8\/7rmZaCdBKg0\/s1600\/BlessedYule12.jpg\" alt=\"Yule Card\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been crazy, obviously, right? Lack of posts, and slightly off schedule as well&#8230; *sigh* I blame the Yule cookery\/canning\/candy-making faerie that visited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1084,871,1,870,799,73],"tags":[1690,189,529,260,2595,563],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52weeks","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","category-recipes","tag-butthurt","tag-christmas","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-yule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}