{"id":34262,"date":"2014-12-12T06:41:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=34262"},"modified":"2014-12-10T10:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:47:53","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-stocking-stuffers-stockings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-stocking-stuffers-stockings\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Do stocking stuffers always come in stockings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/tree-trunk-desk-organizer?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_26097-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Trunk Desk Organizer | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_26097-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_26097-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_26097-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_26097.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All over the world, you find different traditions for holiday giving. Many countries, including the United States, hang stockings by the fireplace for Santa Clause to fill on Christmas Eve.\u00a0In Germany, St. Nicholas leaves small toys and candy in children\u2019s shoes on his saint day in early December, as does the good witch la Befana on January 6 for children in Italy. But perhaps the most unusual tradition comes from the Catalonia region in Spain. There children are given treats on Christmas Even by <i>Ti\u00f3 de Nadal<\/i>\u2014the Christmas Log. Beginning on December 8 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception), children give the Christmas Log a cozy place to live, \u201cfeeding\u201d it a little food from their dinner each night, and even giving it a blanket to keep warm. On Christmas Eve, the children are sent into another room to pray for the <i>tio<\/i> to deliver lots of presents, and while they are doing so, the adults quickly hide candy and other treats under the log\u2019s blanket. When the children return, they command the log to poop. They sing songs while hitting it with a stick in order to help it do so, and after each song, an adult reaches under the blanket to reveal another goodie that the log has produced. It gives one reason to be grateful that America has decided to stick with stockings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tree Trunk Desk Organizer \" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/tree-trunk-desk-organizer?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Tree Trunk Desk Organizer, $33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over the world, you find different traditions for holiday giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":34363,"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\/34262"}],"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=34262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}