{"id":2444,"date":"2012-10-14T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/?page_id=2444"},"modified":"2013-06-26T04:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:23:11","slug":"holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/holidays-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official Holidays of Spindizzy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Iceberg Day, 2nd Wednesday of January<\/em> – The purpose of this holiday is to focus on winter games and frolicking in the snow.
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\"Bunnyhugger\"<\/a>Hugging Day, February 9th<\/em> \u2013 A celebration of hugging. In past years, Austin has often brought out the multiplexers for it, so we\u2019ve celebrated it by adding extra limbs, the better to hug with.<\/p>\n

Morality Day, Fourth Monday of February<\/em> – A day to encourage people to think about morality.<\/p>\n

Shiny Day, March 17th<\/em> – A celebration of shininess, typically celebrated with a ball or dance of some sort.\u00a0 People usually decorate themselves with shiny things.<\/p>\n

Love Day, April 10th<\/em> – A day to talk about the things one loves with the people one loves.<\/p>\n

Day of Remembrance, May 30th<\/em> – A day to reflect on folks who have departed.\u00a0 Usually celebrated with a gathering at the Plaza and people taking turns talking about the lost folks, sharing anecdotes and so on.<\/p>\n

Festival of Cuteness, Third Tuesday in June<\/em> – This popular holiday is celebrated with parades, dancing, karaoke, and various \u201ccuteness competitions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Expanding Horizons Day, July 14th<\/em> – This holiday celebrates the storming of the Bastille, and is also a day to try new experiences and views.<\/p>\n

Jellicle Ball, August 1st<\/em> – A yearly ball for Jellicle Cats and others, hosted by Patch O\u2019Black.<\/p>\n

Mecha Day, Third Sunday in August<\/em> – A day to showcase and celebrate robots, especially big ones.<\/p>\n

Founder\u2019s Day, September 28th<\/em> – A day to celebrate the folks who went before us and made the world what it is.<\/p>\n

Groovy Day, Second Monday in October<\/em> – A celebration of sixties and seventies culture, particularly musical culture.<\/p>\n

National Horizontal Day, Third Thursday of November<\/em> – A day for people to try out being quadrupedal, or to do things related to being quadrupedal.<\/p>\n

E-Holiday, December 8th<\/em> – \u201cEverything\u201d Holiday.\u00a0\u00a0 The E-Holiday is the logical-operator \u2018everything\u2019, that is, it is a day for celebrating what, and how, one wants.\"Qoons\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Raccoon Day<\/em> – Every day is Raccoon Day – A day to celebrate Raccoons.<\/p>\n

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Unofficial, Proposed, Foreign, and Deprecated Holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Canadia Day, July 1st<\/em> – A holiday of the Secret Lemur Empire, celebrating the existence of Canada.\u00a0 Traditional festivities include wearing mountie hats, and standing on gourds.<\/p>\n

National Pickle Attack Month, Month of October<\/em> –\u00a0 A month set aside to assault people using pickles.<\/p>\n

Festival de Tomato, October 13th<\/em> – A proposed holiday for people to assault one another with tomatoes.\u00a0 Proposed independently of National Pickle Attack Month.\u00a0 There’s just something about October that encourages produce fights.<\/p>\n

Fox Guys’ Day, November 5th<\/em> – A day celebrated by blowing up foxes with gunpowder.<\/p>\n

Thankstaking Day, Last Wednesday in November<\/em> – On Thankstaking Day, you\u2019re allowed to keep anything that you can pick up and thank the owner for before he objects. You have to give it all back on Monday, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official Holidays of Spindizzy   Iceberg Day, 2nd Wednesday of January – The purpose of this holiday is to focus on winter games and frolicking in the snow. Hugging Day, February 9th \u2013 A celebration of hugging. In past years, Austin has often brought out the multiplexers for it, so we\u2019ve celebrated it by adding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2444\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spindizzy.org\/nwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}