{"id":1380377,"date":"2022-05-11T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applia.acrowd.se\/?post_type=post&amp;p=1380377"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:17:51","slug":"snart-ar-det-mors-dag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/snart-ar-det-mors-dag\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#039;s Day is coming soon."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Mother&#039;s Day is a holiday when children celebrate their mothers, but also a commercial holiday that was established in Sweden in 1919 at the initiative of the author Cecilia B\u00e5\u00e5th-Holmberg, following the American model. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last Sunday in May honors all mothers and, like Father&#039;s Day, this day is typical of the emerging welfare society during the 20th century, when several public holidays were created.<\/p>\n<p>In a small booklet called &quot;Mother&#039;s Day&quot; published in 1920, there were a number of instructions for how the day could be celebrated:<\/p>\n<p>1. The Swedish flag is hoisted from the home flagpole.<br \/>\n2. Mother is greeted in the morning with singing by the children.<br \/>\n3. Before the ascension, she is offered good coffee and bread, prepared by the children. She is honored with flowers and a small gift.<br \/>\n4. She is given, as far as possible, rest and freedom from all household work that day. The children make the bed, sweep, cook and wash the dishes.<br \/>\n5. At afternoon coffee or in the evening, a small ceremony is held, in which the father of the house participates.<br \/>\n6. Absent children greet Mother with a letter or telegram or postcard, specially made and provided for Mother&#039;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we suggest celebrating Mother&#039;s Day with homemade cakes and perhaps a small gift from the household appliance segment, of course tailored to the recipient&#039;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Want to find more commercial holidays? See APPLiAnytt&#039;s activity calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/post\/aktivitetskalender\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Jon Tyson\/Unsplash<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother&#039;s Day is a holiday when children celebrate their mothers, but also a commercial holiday that was established in Sweden in 1919 at the initiative of the author Cecilia B\u00e5\u00e5th-Holmberg, following the American model.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applianytt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.applia-sverige.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}