{"id":3393,"date":"2022-11-28T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:14:02","slug":"around-the-world-nativities-day-two-author-merry-stahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/around-the-world-nativities-day-two-author-merry-stahel\/","title":{"rendered":"Around The World Nativities 2022- Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tby Merry Stahel\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThese Matryoshka Nativity dolls from the Ukraine were given to me by my boss this year. The dolls originated in Russia in the 1890s. Ukraine and Poland make the themed nesting dolls, too. Each doll is hand-painted and fits inside the next biggest one. When they are all nested, only the largest doll is visible. The Holy Family is the largest, then the kings, a shepherd, a sheep, and a dove.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe song: Ukrainian Christmas Carol &ndash; <strong>Heaven And Earth<\/strong> sung by Yevshan Chorale Ensemble at St. Michaels Ukrainian Catholic Church, Hartford, Connecticut directed by Alexander Kuzma.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/These Matryoshka Nativity dolls from the Ukraine were given to me by my boss. The dolls originated in Russia in the 1890s. Ukraine and Poland make the themed nesting dolls, too. Each doll opens around the middle circumference, and nests inside the next one until there is only one doll visible. The Holy Family is the largest, then the kings, a shepherd, a sheep, and a dove.   The song: Ukrainian Christmas Carol \u2013 Heaven And Earth sung by Yevshan Chorale Ensemble at St Michaels Ukrainian Catholic Church, Hartford, Connecticut directed by Alexander Kuzma.  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShZEleBAPHE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShZEleBAPHE<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"537\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/file\/UkraineNicke2022.JPG\" width=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Merry Stahel These Matryoshka Nativity dolls from the Ukraine were given to me by my boss this year. The dolls originated in Russia in the 1890s. Ukraine and Poland make the themed nesting dolls, too. Each doll is hand-painted and fits inside the next biggest one. When they are all nested, only the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}