{"id":2875,"date":"2018-02-06T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/%cf%84%cf%83%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bc%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b7-party\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T17:23:46","slug":"%cf%84%cf%83%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bc%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b7-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/%cf%84%cf%83%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bc%cf%80%cf%84%ce%b7-party\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a4\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03bd\u03bf\u03c0\u03b5\u03bc\u03c0\u03c4\u03b7 Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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thursday 8th february<\/h3>\n

The three weeks of Carnival in Greece are, in order, “Prophoni” (in Greek: \u03a0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03ae<\/i> -Preannouncement Week), “Kreatini” (in Greek: \u039a\u03c1\u03b5\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03ae<\/i> -Meatfare Week),[1]<\/a><\/sup> and “Tyrofagou” (in Greek: \u03a4\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03ac\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5<\/i> -Cheesefare Week).[1]<\/a><\/sup> Tsiknopempti is the Thursday of the 2nd week of Apokria[2]<\/a><\/sup> (the week of Kreatini), during which large amounts of meat are traditionally consumed prior to the arrival of Lent<\/a>, the fasting season leading up to Easter<\/a>.[3]<\/a><\/sup> In the Greek Orthodox<\/a> tradition, fasting<\/a> on Wednesday and Friday is important, therefore Thursday is the best day for Tsiknopempti.[4]<\/a><\/sup> Tsiknopempti is celebrated 11 days before Clean Monday<\/a> ((or Ash Monday).<\/p>\n

Similar celebrations known as Fat Thursday<\/a><\/i> are held in many other countries. In many countries there is an equivalent festivity day widely known as Mardi gras<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

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thursday 8th february The three weeks of Carnival in Greece are, in order, “Prophoni” (in Greek: \u03a0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03ae -Preannouncement Week), “Kreatini” (in Greek: \u039a\u03c1\u03b5\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03ae -Meatfare Week),[1] and “Tyrofagou” (in Greek: \u03a4\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03ac\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5 -Cheesefare Week).[1] Tsiknopempti is the Thursday of the 2nd week of Apokria[2] (the week of Kreatini), during which large amounts of meat are traditionally consumed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedubliner.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}