{"id":21090,"date":"2025-02-06T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=21090"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:23:27","slug":"year-of-the-snake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=21090","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14417\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14417\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?attachment_id=14417\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SnakedoorstopB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 F H Powell 2009&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Pattern for dolls house draught excluder\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?w=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 F H Powell 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although we are now in February, celebrations of the Chinese New Year (sometimes referred to as the Lunar New Year) are continuing. January 29th marked the start of the New Year Festival and celebrations will end with the Lantern Festival on February 12th. This year is the Year of the Snake. <\/p>\n<p>You may wish to place a snake inside your dolls house for good luck. Unfortunately we don&#8217;t sell patterns for miniature snakes, but we do have a knitting pattern for a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/?p=158\" target=\"_blank\">1:12th scale snake draught excluder.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we are now in February, celebrations of the Chinese New Year (sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-21090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interestseasons","category-high-days-and-holidays","tag-high-days-and-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/SnakedoorstopB.jpg?fit=640%2C480","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Q29Z-5ua","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21093,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions\/21093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/store.buttercupminiatures.co.uk\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}