{"id":59892,"date":"2016-01-13T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=59892"},"modified":"2016-01-13T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:09:44","slug":"first-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59892","title":{"rendered":"First-foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFirst-foot: [furst-f<em>oo<\/em> t] Scot.<\/p>\n<p>noun: the first person to cross the threshold of a house on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>In Scotland, the first person to enter your house after midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve\u00a0is called a &#8220;first-foot&#8221; or &#8220;first-footer.&#8221; And if that person is tall, dark, and handsome &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>well, lucky you &#8230; in more ways than one!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59893\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59893\" class=\"wp-image-59893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/440px-John_william_waterhouse_tristan_and_isolde_with_the_potion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"490\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tristan and Isolde with the Potion by John William Waterhouse via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That tall, handsome, dark-haired man is thought to bring you good fortune for the year ahead. And even more good fortune if he knows to bring along a silver coin (good luck); bread (prosperity), salt (good eats), or whiskey (good cheer).<\/p>\n<p>Who was your first-footer? I think my sure-footed tom cat, Jasper Tomkins, was my first-footer.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-foot: [furst-foo t] Scot. noun: the first person to cross the threshold of a house on New Year&#8217;s Day. In Scotland, the first person to enter your house after midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve\u00a0is called a &#8220;first-foot&#8221; or &#8220;first-footer.&#8221; And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}