{"id":1003,"date":"2024-04-22T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2024-04-23T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T20:24:48","slug":"etymology-of-the-days-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/etymology-of-the-days-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymology of the Days of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The days of the week in French are named after celestial bodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reference to astronomy and mythology dates back to antiquity when the earliest astronomers identified seven wandering celestial bodies in the sky, which they observed moving. Then, in Roman civilization, the names of the planets in the solar system were also the names of important gods. To understand the meaning of each day&#8217;s name, just look at the clouds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"1004\" src=\"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/7-jours-blog.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/7-jours-blog.png 640w, https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/7-jours-blog-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of the week in French are named after celestial bodies. This reference to astronomy and mythology dates back to antiquity when the earliest astronomers identified seven wandering celestial bodies in the sky, which they observed moving. Then, in Roman civilization, the names of the planets in the solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortissimot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}