{"id":7,"date":"2020-04-23T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/?p=7"},"modified":"2021-04-23T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:26:51","slug":"the-cross-of-saint-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/2020\/04\/23\/the-cross-of-saint-george\/","title":{"rendered":"The cross of Saint George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 23rd, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Happy nameday to all of you named George or Georgia, a popular name in Greece!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21733\/2020\/04\/153E9001-64EA-48F4-B5FB-736E5D61DF40.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21733\/2020\/04\/153E9001-64EA-48F4-B5FB-736E5D61DF40.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21733\/2020\/04\/153E9001-64EA-48F4-B5FB-736E5D61DF40-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21733\/2020\/04\/153E9001-64EA-48F4-B5FB-736E5D61DF40-768x571.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Saint George's Cross<\/b>, also called the <b>Cross of Saint George<\/b>, is a red <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Heraldic cross\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heraldic_cross\">cross<\/a> on a white background.<\/p>\n<p>Saint George became associated as the \"patron saint\" of <a title=\"Kingdom of England\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_England\">England<\/a> after the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"English reformation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_reformation\">English reformation <\/a>\u00a0and his flag came to be identified as the national <a title=\"Flag of England\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_England\">flag of England<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">(source: wikipedia)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Can you name the capital of England? (I'm sure you can!\ud83d\ude42) \u00a0Can you name some other major cities? What famous landmarks can you think of? Any English writers, poets or playwrights? Especially one who died on April 23rd???<\/p>\n<p>If you don't know who I am talking about, read this<a href=\"https:\/\/dreamonlinegroup.com\/koinwnia\/san-simera-gennietai-o-william-shakespeare-o-skopos-ths-texnis-einai-na-dosei-sti-zoi-sxima\/?fbclid=IwAR1STeganX_hHek_Pp04vVmcINAL0eAlWh1Ipai2ouweyf19gi9RvOUnXLM\"> article<\/a>. (click on the word!) It's in Greek and it contains lots of useful information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23rd, 2020 Happy nameday to all of you named George or Georgia, a popular name in Greece! Saint George&#8217;s Cross, also called the Cross of Saint George, is a red cross on a white background. Saint George &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/2020\/04\/23\/the-cross-of-saint-george\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The cross of Saint George&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,187],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-cross","tag-cross-of-saint-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.e-me.edu.gr\/msokori\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}