{"id":1390,"date":"2026-12-13T00:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-12-13T05:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:31:53","slug":"santa-lucia-day-is-celebrated-in-sweden-and-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Santa Lucia Day Is Celebrated in Sweden and Other Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0b\/Saffron_bun_20051213_001.jpg\/320px-Saffron_bun_20051213_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Bun<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Santa Lucia Day is celebrated in Sweden and other countries.<\/strong> Girls put on white dresses, wear a crown of candles, and wake their families with coffee, Lucia Buns (lussekatter or saffron buns), and music. During the evening church service, processions of girls honor Saint Lucy. For a Lucia Buns recipe, children could visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/snca.files.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/lussekattersm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucia Buns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Lucia Day is celebrated in Sweden and other countries. Girls put on white dresses, wear a crown of candles, and wake their families with coffee, Lucia Buns (lussekatter or saffron buns), and music. During the evening church service, processions of girls honor Saint Lucy. For a Lucia Buns recipe, children could visit: Lucia Buns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,6080,6081,6082,63,125],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-december-13","tag-lucia-buns","tag-lussekatter","tag-saffron-buns","tag-santa-lucia-day","tag-sweden","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24059,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/24059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}