{"id":33026,"date":"2014-10-13T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=33026"},"modified":"2014-10-09T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:04:46","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-german-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-german-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How German is your weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/21520_stone-ware-growler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-33056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/21520_stone-ware-growler-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Stoneware Growler | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/21520_stone-ware-growler-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/21520_stone-ware-growler-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/21520_stone-ware-growler-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a true, diehard American, then there\u2019s a good chance that your weekend is going to be pretty German. Germans were a major immigrant group in the United States up through the 19th century, and much of what we consider quintessentially American is actually a German import. Got a beer in one hand and a frankfurter in the other? Both German. Also the sauerkraut on your dog, and potato salad on the side? German and German. Enjoying a picnic in the park while a brass band plays marches? No surprise\u2014those were also popularized here by the Germans. In fact, you could argue that the whole concept of a weekend is thanks to German immigrants. Puritanical Americans often set aside Sunday as a day of worship instead of work. But the Germans brought with them a culture that prized organized recreation with the family, and during the heyday of their influx, public bandstands, civic orchestras, bandstands and sports clubs began to flourish\u2014for which we give a hearty \u201cDankesch\u00f6n!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/stoneware-growler?source=blog\">Stoneware Growler, $65<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: We should give the Germans a sincere \u201cDankesch\u00f6n&#8221; for their influence  on the American work week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":33058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}