{"id":217191,"date":"2009-12-17T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/5e8d29cf6acc082fc030bdd7c6c512d5"},"modified":"2009-12-17T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T13:42:44","slug":"why-do-we-put-candles-on-a-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217191","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Put Candles On A Birthday Cake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times there was a prevalent belief that birthdays were a time of potential danger.&nbsp;&nbsp;This originated within Greek culture, where both birth and birthdays were regarded as a time when the Gods may take your soul.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q96\/q967\/q9672\/q967211_26928_173_2789584920_ebc4e8b69b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29278394@N00\/\" >normanack<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Consequently, when a Greek child had a birthday, s\/he was given a little cake with a candle.&nbsp;&nbsp;The gods were asked for protection and the candle was then blown out.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Greeks believed that the smoke from the candle would carry the message to the gods and the child would be spared to continue living.<\/p>\n<p>This tradition has survived to present day culture, where candles are still placed on a birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>Not all cultures embrace this tradition and some religious people feel that the act of &#8216;making a wish&#8217; before the candles are blown out, is in fact an act of sacrilege and so they do not participate in this aspect of birthdays.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/vMNlzTzeyO4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient times there was a prevalent belief that birthdays were a time of potential danger.&nbsp;&nbsp;This originated within Greek culture, where both birth and birthdays were regarded as a time when the Gods may take your soul.&nbsp;&nbsp; normanack Consequently, when a Greek child had a birthday, s\/he was given a little cake with a candle.&nbsp;&nbsp;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}