{"id":3742,"date":"2012-11-20T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2016-09-27T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:59:30","slug":"st-martins-day-neighborhood-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"St. Martin&#8217;s Day Neighborhood Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8484\/8192422445_fc073373a4_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0002\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8349\/8193509946_8d755eea5e_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8341\/8192423325_12fe11c950_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8350\/8193511040_10d59631c1_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our German neighbors have introduced the most fun tradition to our neighborhood! For the past 3 years, they have hosted a St. Martin&#8217;s Day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=919\" target=\"_blank\">celebration<\/a>\u00a0(read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/society\/20101111-15437.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), full of good food, decorating lanterns, mulled wine and warm cider, and a parade to the lion statue in the park a few blocks away&#8230; followed by a little chocolate coin treasure hunt in the dark. This year there were more kids (and chaos) than ever, which of course means we all had a blast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8066\/8193511260_de606656c8_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8209\/8192424069_040d0eaf9d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0017\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8199\/8193511850_788a1a58f7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0019\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8477\/8193512700_8af1b01d1e_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It really is magical every time I see the line of glowing lanterns marching down our street on some November night. Does your neighborhood partake in any traditions? We took over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2976\" target=\"_blank\">one tradition<\/a> and hope to keep the annual summer party alive&#8230; it&#8217;s so much fun to hang with the locals, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8342\/8192425673_283f051ef0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0034\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our German neighbors have introduced the most fun tradition to our neighborhood! For the past 3 years, they have hosted a St. Martin&#8217;s Day celebration\u00a0(read more here), full of good food, decorating lanterns, mulled wine and warm cider, and a parade to the lion statue in the park a few blocks away&#8230; followed by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St. Martin&#8217;s Day Neighborhood Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,88,90],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-neighborhood","tag-st-louis","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}