{"id":167,"date":"2017-02-14T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2017-02-14T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:18:37","slug":"st-valentines-day-and-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/st-valentines-day-and-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Valentine&#8217;s Day and apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The apple is a symbol of love. It has a rich history of symbolism in sexual desires and abundance. It is related to the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. The other goddess associated with apples is Pomona &#8211; a Roman goddess of fruitful abundance, gardens, and orchards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cider-from-Poland.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cider-from-Poland-300x251.png\" alt=\"st. valentine's day\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cider-from-Poland-300x251.png 300w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cider-from-Poland-768x644.png 768w, http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Cider-from-Poland.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some superstitions and magical beliefs about apples. We think some are funny:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was believed that if a gentleman threw or tossed an apple to a maiden, he was confessing his love to her. If she, in turn, caught the apple, or at least attempted to, she was reciprocating her love to him. (source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/religion-philosophy\/The-Apple-A-Symbol-of-Love\">http:\/\/hubpages.com\/religion-philosophy\/The-Apple-A-Symbol-of-Love<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It was customary on the wedding night for the bride to eat an apple, ensuring sexual desire, fertility to birth children and abundance within the marriage. (source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/religion-philosophy\/The-Apple-A-Symbol-of-Love\">http:\/\/hubpages.com\/religion-philosophy\/The-Apple-A-Symbol-of-Love<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To see a vision of your love: &#8220;Eating an apple in front of a mirror by the light of the candle was supposed to cause the image of you future love to appear in the mirror as if he was looking over your shoulder.&#8221; (source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny\/strange-love-6-ways-an-apple-can-help-you-prepare-for-valentines-day\/\">http:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny\/strange-love-6-ways-an-apple-can-help-you-prepare-for-valentines-day\/<\/a> )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To find out your love&#8217;s initial: &#8220;If someone peels an apple in one piece and throws it over his or her shoulder or head, it will fall in the shape of a future love&#8217;s initial.&#8221; (source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny\/strange-love-6-ways-an-apple-can-help-you-prepare-for-valentines-day\/\">http:\/\/www.rd.com\/funny\/strange-love-6-ways-an-apple-can-help-you-prepare-for-valentines-day\/<\/a>\u00a0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apple is a symbol of love. It has a rich history of symbolism in sexual desires and abundance. It[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ciderfrompoland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}