{"id":223,"date":"2008-12-16T21:34:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-12-16T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:44:32","slug":"beltaine-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/beltaine-is-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltaine is coming soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I mentioning Beltaine (May Day) when Yule still isn&#8217;t here? Because May traditionally begins the wedding season, and brides and grooms are already planning their ceremonies, months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>To help them with that planning, we&#8217;ve opened up two new websites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonvalleycivilceremonies.com\">Hudson Valley Civil Ceremonies<\/a>, for people wanting secular, new age, or nondenominational weddings, and <a href=\"http:\/\/unusualceremonies.com\">Unusual Ceremonies<\/a>, for Druids, Wiccans, Asatruar, Goths, Pirates, Furries, Trekkers, Nudists, Leather Folk, Atheists, Agnostics, Rennies, SCAers, and members of other subcultures and minority belief systems.<\/p>\n<p>Phae and I will be happy to help people get beautiful ceremonies that reflect their actual beliefs (or nonbeliefs) &#8212; not just weddings\/handfastings, but child welcomings, funerals, house blessings, and more. If there&#8217;s one thing we&#8217;re really good at, it&#8217;s creating top-notch rituals.<\/p>\n<p>So wander on over and take a look. Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I mentioning Beltaine (May Day) when Yule still isn&#8217;t here? Because May traditionally begins the wedding season, and brides and grooms are already planning their ceremonies, months ahead. To help them with that planning, we&#8217;ve opened up two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/beltaine-is-coming-soon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","category-personal-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}