{"id":4738,"date":"2014-11-03T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4738"},"modified":"2018-02-02T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:34:51","slug":"adamo-shares-origins-halloween-kare-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/03\/adamo-shares-origins-halloween-kare-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Adamo shares origins of Halloween on KARE 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4740 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/11\/Adamo-e1415043105460.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Adamo on set with Diana Pierce at KARE 11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><strong>Phil Adamo<\/strong>, associate professor of history and director of Medieval Studies at Augsburg College, was a guest on KARE 11 on Halloween to talk about the origins of the holiday. Adamo shared with Diana Pierce and viewers how Halloween started as a Celtic festival that celebrated the final harvest and eventually was incorporated into Christian traditions to lure non-Christians into the Church. He also discussed the origins of the bonfire, jack-o-lanterns, and Halloween candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Adamo, associate professor of history and director of Medieval Studies at Augsburg College, was a guest on KARE 11 on Halloween to talk about the origins of the holiday. Adamo shared with Diana Pierce and viewers how Halloween started as a Celtic festival that celebrated the final harvest and eventually was incorporated into Christian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,3233],"tags":[3406,595,3404,3401,3227,1861,2279,3405],"class_list":["post-4738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-relationship-2","tag-bonfire","tag-christian","tag-diana-pierce","tag-halloween","tag-kare-11","tag-medieval","tag-phil-adamo","tag-pumpkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4738\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}