{"id":238,"date":"2009-05-01T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T11:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/05\/merry-may-1.html"},"modified":"2009-05-01T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T11:24:56","slug":"merry-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/05\/merry-may-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry May!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up at 4:30 to celebrate the May and &#8216;bring in&#8217; the sun.&nbsp; I learned (on my blog!) that Sebastopol has Morris dancers as well: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcds.org\/morris.html\">Apple Tree Morris<\/a>.&nbsp; So I got to sleep later, saved a lot of driving, supported my local community, and attended their performance instead. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a wonderful performance it was!&nbsp; The mix of &#8216;reverence and mirth&#8217; was perfect.&nbsp; While the predicted rain has not yet arrived, clouds blocked the rising sun from view.&nbsp; So at sunrise the dancers held up a hanky, placed a candle behind it, and slowly raised it to view, all to the skirling of the bagpipes. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>And Merry May to you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up at 4:30 to celebrate the May and &#8216;bring in&#8217; the sun.&nbsp; I learned (on my blog!) that Sebastopol has Morris dancers as well: Apple Tree Morris.&nbsp; So I got to sleep later, saved a lot of driving, supported my local community, and attended their performance instead. &nbsp; And a wonderful performance it was!&nbsp; The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-holidays-and-sabbats","category-pagan-rituals-and-festivals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Merry May! 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