{"id":4070,"date":"2024-12-22T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:22:50","slug":"merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2024\/12\/22\/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and a happy new year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Like every year, we have held a little Christmas get-together with our Dickinsonians and some other members of the Dickinson-family, here in Bremen. Aside from traditional German Christmas snacks like Lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Spekulatius cookies, we&#8217;ve had some Gl\u00fchwein (mulled wine) or Weihnachtspunsch (Christmas punch).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4076\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"wp-image-4076 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8304-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team work: quickly assembling the houses while the icing has the right consistency.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Then we decorated gingerbread houses, like the one described in Grimm&#8217;s fairytale of H\u00e4nsel and Gretel. Which one is better?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4077\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4077\" class=\"wp-image-4077 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8308-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"318\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gingerbread house Nr. 1.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4078\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-image-4078 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2024\/12\/IMG_8309-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"318\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gingerbread house Nr. 2.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like every year, we have held a little Christmas get-together with our Dickinsonians and some other members of the Dickinson-family, here in Bremen. Aside from traditional German Christmas snacks like Lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Spekulatius cookies, we&#8217;ve had some Gl\u00fchwein (mulled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2024\/12\/22\/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}