{"id":2757,"date":"2011-02-21T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2012-02-29T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T06:56:38","slug":"today-is-about-semla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/today-is-about-semla\/","title":{"rendered":"today is about semla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today is about semla I think it looks better than a pancake,\u00c2\u00a0 this is one of the benefits of marrying a swede.<\/p>\n<p title=\"Protestant Reformation\">The\u00c2\u00a0 history semla it was originally eaten only on Shrove Tuesday &#8216; Pancake Day &#8216; as the last festive food before Lent. However, with the arrival of the Protestant Reformation\u00c2\u00a0 the Swedish people stopped observing a strict fasting for Lent.\u00c2\u00a0 The semla in a\u00c2\u00a0 bowl of warm milk became a traditional dessert every Tuesday between Shrove Tuesday and Easter. Me being an English pig prefers the scoffing style of eating semla , so any white stuff around my nose its powdered sugar &#8230; I dont know what you were thinking.<\/p>\n<p title=\"Protestant Reformation\">Today, semlor are available in shops and bakeries every day\u00c2\u00a0 everywhere they are sold from shortly after Christmas until Easter. Each Swedish person consumes on average five bakery-produced semlor each year.\u00c2\u00a0 I for the record this year have only had one\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230; and there will be one today .\u00c2\u00a0 As a wedding photographer I have hoped one of my swedish or <a title=\"stockholm weddings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stockholmweddings.se\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stockholm weddings<\/span><\/a> would have a massive semla for a wedding cake &#8230; Im offering a free wedding shoot for anyone that does .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2758\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2758\" title=\"semla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/semla.jpg\" alt=\"''semla''\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/semla.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/semla-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Semla ... could possibly be the best ever wedding cake.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today is about semla I think it looks better than a pancake,\u00c2\u00a0 this is one of the benefits of marrying a swede. The\u00c2\u00a0 history semla it was originally eaten only on Shrove Tuesday &#8216; Pancake Day &#8216; as the last festive food before Lent. However, with the arrival of the Protestant Reformation\u00c2\u00a0 the Swedish people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[1090,833,255,1242],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings","tag-stockholm-weddings","tag-wedding-cake","tag-wedding-photographer","tag-wedding-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianjohnsonphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}