{"id":4813,"date":"2020-08-04T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:02:14","slug":"originally-called-sextilis-by-the-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"originally called Sextilis by the Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/promo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4810 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/promo-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/promo-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/promo.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>August was then named Augustus in honor of Augustus Caesar. Gathered harvests were celebrated in many lands during this month.<br \/>\nAugust 1st was a Celtic feast called Lunasa or Lughnassadh, meaning the celebration of harvest and new grain for bread. In Old English this became Lammas, or \u201cLoaf Mass.\u201d The Romans also had a harvest festival during this month.<br \/>\nThey also celebrated a harvest festival for the goddess Ops. Wine and freshly baked bread were placed on her altars. Near the end of the month they had a thanksgiving feast called the Charisteria.<\/p>\n<p>Well, its all going on in August and its all going on in this months newsletter which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/sahir.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/August-2020-Newsletter-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><br \/>\nThis month we are looking at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sahir House services update<\/li>\n<li>Peer groups at Sahir House<\/li>\n<li>CAMHS training<\/li>\n<li>Online Pride March<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer meeting dates<\/li>\n<li>The Mic drop<\/li>\n<li>Fundraising<\/li>\n<li>Wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Tiddles tails<\/li>\n<li>Households into work<\/li>\n<li>Fun fact of the month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August was then named Augustus in honor of Augustus Caesar. Gathered harvests were celebrated in many lands during this month. August 1st was a Celtic feast called Lunasa or Lughnassadh, meaning the celebration of harvest and new grain for bread. In Old English this became Lammas, or \u201cLoaf Mass.\u201d The Romans also had a harvest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahir.sparkzmediapreview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}