{"id":1648,"date":"2020-10-27T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2020-10-27T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T14:00:56","slug":"the-story-behind-jack-o-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/27\/the-story-behind-jack-o-lanterns\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Jack O&#8217; Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>By Remy Cush<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Fall is here when the evenings get darker a little earlier, and grocery stores start filling up with Halloween candies and an array of pumpkins. They first appear in the vegetable and produce aisles, then they appear outside of stores with displays of yellow, purple, and burgundy mums for decoration. Some may wonder if it\u2019s worth it to spend more than an hour scooping out <strong>pumpkin guts<\/strong>, and completely scoring a pumpkin to slightly resemble the desired design.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The popular activity of making \u201cJack O\u2019Lanterns\u201d originated in an Irish myth, <strong>\u201cStingy Jack.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0According to <em>history.com<\/em>, <strong>Stingy Jack had two encounters with the Devil, <\/strong>both ending with him catching him, and Jack asking him not to bother him, and to not claim his soul when he died. Jack was enough of an unpleasant, distasteful person that God wouldn\u2019t allow him into Heaven after he died. Because of the agreements made between Jack and the Devil, he wouldn\u2019t have perished in hell. As an alternate solution, the Devil sent him into the \u201cdark night with only a burning coal to light his way.\u201d Jack placed the coal into <strong>a hollowed-out turnip<\/strong>, beginning the Halloween custom of pumpkin carving. The story of \u201cStingy Jack\u201d evolved over the years, and the Irish and Scottish began creating their own Jack O\u2019Lanterns with potatoes or turnips, to ward away the evil spirit of Jack along with other mythical creatures of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This carving of root vegetables was brought to America by European immigrants, and quickly became popularized with the use of pumpkins, which grow on a vine like cucumbers, zucchini, and melons. This old Celtic tradition became a reliable Halloween staple in the United States, and continues to be a treasured practice to end the month of October.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Remy Cush \u00a0\u00a0 Fall is here when the evenings get darker a little earlier, and grocery stores start filling up with Halloween candies and an array of pumpkins. They first appear in the vegetable and produce aisles, then they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jacko.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}