{"id":1725,"date":"2026-01-01T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:11:33","slug":"new-years-day-is-celebrated-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Day Is Celebrated around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14030\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14030\" class=\"wp-image-14030 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mummer-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mummer&#8217;s Day Parade courtesy of Carol Highsmith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New Year\u2019s Day is celebrated around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #33c5ff;\">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/span><\/strong><\/span>, sponsors a Mummers Parade.<\/li>\n<li>In <span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\"><strong>Armenia <\/strong><\/span>mothers knead bread dough, adding good luck into the bread.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Bahamas<\/span><\/strong> they have Junkanoo parades.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Denmark<\/span><\/strong> people throw old dishes at their friends\u2019 doors.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Koreans<\/span><\/strong> wear new clothes.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Spain<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Mexico<\/span><\/strong>, people eat twelve\u00a0grapes, one for each stroke of the midnight clock.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong><span style=\"color: #37b6ed;\">Bulgaria<\/span><\/strong> children take decorated tree branches to other people&#8217;s homes. At each house\u00a0the children bless the home and its occupants. The homeowners give the children sweets or money, and the children visit the next home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Day is celebrated around the world. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sponsors a Mummers Parade. In Armenia mothers knead bread dough, adding good luck into the bread. In the Bahamas they have Junkanoo parades. In Denmark people throw old dishes at their friends\u2019 doors. Koreans wear new clothes. In Spain and Mexico, people eat twelve\u00a0grapes, one <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1725' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[4778],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-january-1","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\/1725","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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28920,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/28920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}