{"id":6534,"date":"2021-01-06T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2021-07-04T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:25:05","slug":"twelfth-day-i-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/twelfth-day-i-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelfth Day &#8211; I love it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know what you are thinking.<br>No. It&#8217;s not just because of the Three Kings Cake.<br>Not only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4928\" height=\"3264\" src=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1.jpg 4928w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-content\/uploads\/R0328794-1-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4928px) 100vw, 4928px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>[Click the image to enlarge to full resolution. 6th January 2021.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year on the 6th January my mother bought a Three Kings Cake. Although we all knew the meaning of Epiphany, Twelfth Day or Three Kings Day &#8211; as it is called &#8211; back in my childhood 6th January was a synonym for &#8220;Having a Three Kings Cake&#8221; &#8211; at least for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother used to crisp it for a few minutes and finally carefully placed the golden paper crown on top. There was a chance to be king for one day &#8211; <em>so let the feast begin!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Today, many years later, my family &#8211; i.e. my wife Arlette, our two daughters C\u00e9cile and Olivia and me &#8211; we still stick to this beautiful tradition, but with some small changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We don&#8217;t celebrate on 6th January only; this year we started on 4th January and finally stopped today on 6th January. Hej, it&#8217;s Twelfth Day &#8211; this calls for a fitting celebration!<\/li><li>We don&#8217;t buy the Three Kings Cake, I usually do it or them myself.<\/li><li>We all love this fluffy light cake that much, so one cake only is hardly enough. This year we had 5 of them, each having 9 pieces.<\/li><li>The small king is never in the middle of the cake, but in each of the other pieces &#8211; so all of us have a true 100 percent chance of winning.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember how many times I have been king all these years, but one thing is for sure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s always good to be the king.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\">Home<\/a><br>Thank you for reading.<br>You can sign up for my newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/subscribe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/twelfth-day-i-love-it\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Twelfth Day &#8211; I love it!\"><p>Twelfth Day &#8211; I love it! A 100 percent chance of winning<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1056],"tags":[1085,1083,1080,1084,1082,1086,1081],"class_list":{"0":"post-6534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-storytelling","7":"tag-6th-january","8":"tag-cake","9":"tag-epiphany","10":"tag-king","11":"tag-three-kings-day","12":"tag-tradition","13":"tag-twelfth-day","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speckund.me\/w2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}