{"id":105312,"date":"2025-10-31T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105312"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:44:24","slug":"105312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Halloween<\/em>, has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed that on this night, the veil between the living and the dead was thin, allowing spirits to return to earth.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that Pope Gregory III established November 1st as \u2018All Saints Day\u2019 also called \u2018All Hallows Day\u2019 sometime in the 8th century. So, as the evening before would be \u2018All Hallows Eve\u2019 \u2013 \u2018eve\u2018 being a contraction of evening \u2013 and even more contracted; Hallowe\u2019en, we know how the name came to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween, has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. It was believed that on this night, the veil between the living and the dead was thin, allowing spirits to return to earth. It is said that Pope Gregory III established &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105325,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105312\/revisions\/105325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}