{"id":831,"date":"2016-03-20T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/polish-easter-traditions-from-babka-to-polish-easter-eggs-pisanki\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:14:51","slug":"polish-easter-traditions-from-babka-to-polish-easter-eggs-pisanki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/polish-easter-traditions-from-babka-to-polish-easter-eggs-pisanki\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Easter Traditions From Babka to Polish Easter Eggs (Pisanki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From Babka to Polish Easter Eggs (Pisanki)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like so many holiday traditions, a family&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/alexadry.hubpages.com\/hub\/Traditional-Easter-Foods-and-their-History\" target=\"_blank\">Easter Traditions<\/a> are usually a mixture of old customs and new ideas. The Easter season is not only a Christian holiday, but has it&#8217;s roots in the Anglo-Saxon celebration of the rebirth of the earth and the return of spring. It is believed that &#8220;Easter&#8221; is actually a version of the name Eostre, the goddess of Spring. Many of the current Easter traditions like sharing Easter eggs and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/chuck.hubpages.com\/hub\/The_Origins_of_the_Easter_Rabbit\" target=\"_blank\">Easter bunny<\/a> go back to ancient pagan symbols of fertility and renewal, but have evolved to have different meanings in different cultures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1366\" src=\"http:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pisanki.jpg\" alt=\"Pisanki\" width=\"650\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pisanki.jpg 650w, https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pisanki-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pisanki-580x241.jpg 580w, https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pisanki-132x55.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my family, we blended American customs with Polish tradition from my mother&#8217;s side of the family and Russian traditions from my father&#8217;s side of the family. Easter became a mixture of the Easter bunny, traditional Polish foods and a few Russian customs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephaniehenkel.hubpages.com\/hub\/Polish-Easter-Traditions-From-Babka-To-Easter-Eggs\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/stephaniehenkel.hubpages.com\/hub\/Polish-Easter-Traditions-From-Babka-To-Easter-Eggs\" target=\"_blank\">HubPages<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Babka to Polish Easter Eggs (Pisanki) Like so many holiday traditions, a family&#8217;s Easter Traditions are usually a mixture of old customs and new ideas. The Easter season is not only a Christian holiday, but has it&#8217;s roots in the Anglo-Saxon celebration of the rebirth of the earth and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polish-culture","category-polish-traditions","tag-polish-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}