{"id":1268,"date":"2018-05-30T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2018-05-30T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:07:29","slug":"researching-holidays-and-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/05\/30\/researching-holidays-and-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching Holidays and Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day was a few days ago in the United States. I usually celebrate it as the unofficial first day of summer by going to see a summer blockbuster movie with friends [I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3778644\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em><\/a> this year.] I just came across an article about the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/FlirtingFlag-Waving-the\/14871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social scientists to do more research on how and why\u00a0holidays have moved from rituals of civic pride and remembrance toward family-oriented celebrations<\/a>. This article was published in 2002, but it is still very much relevant today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day was a few days ago in the United States. I usually celebrate it as the unofficial first day of summer by going to see a summer blockbuster movie with friends [I saw Solo: A Star Wars Story this year.] I just came across an article about the need for social scientists to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29102],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-social-science-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}