{"id":296,"date":"2017-12-06T05:10:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-12-06T05:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:10:42","slug":"swedish-secrets-for-a-happy-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/swedish-secrets-for-a-happy-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Secrets for a Happy Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"https:\/\/demos.sourcecodesolutions.net\/onthemove\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/feet-in-front-of-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/feet-in-front-of-fire.jpg 660w, https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/feet-in-front-of-fire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enjoy your holidays!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With all the rush to buy gifts and make everything &#8220;perfect,&#8221; it&#8217;s easy to lose the true meaning and purpose of the holidays &#8212; enjoying opportunities to spend time and break bread with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of ideas that may help you to make your holidays both <em>meaning<\/em>-full and <em>peace-<\/em>full.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Think of making your celebration <em>lagom.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lagom (pronounced LA-gom) is a Swedish\u00a0word\/philosophy of living with \u201cjust the right\u00a0amount.\u201d\u00a0 It suggests that a rewarding life is also\u00a0a responsible one \u2014 neither sacrificing what you\u00a0love, nor taking more than you need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And then, have a very <em>hygge<\/em>\u00a0holiday!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hygge (pronounced HUE-GUH) is a Danish word used to acknowledge a special feeling or moment. It can be alone or with friends, at home or out, ordinary or extraordinary but is always cozy,\u00a0 charming or special<\/p>\n<p>However you\u00a0celebrate them, wishing you happy, lagom holidays and a joyful, hygge New Year!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the rush to buy gifts and make everything &#8220;perfect,&#8221; it&#8217;s easy to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthemovenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}