{"id":99666,"date":"2017-03-09T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=99666"},"modified":"2017-03-09T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:34:27","slug":"why-we-wear-green-on-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/why-we-wear-green-on-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reasons Why We Wear Green on St. Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOn Wednesdays, we wear pink.\u201d These five words ring true for many (um,\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0<\/em>anyone?!), however, a lot of us don’t know the real reasons why we wear green on St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n

Ahead, we’re giving you a mini history lesson on the significance of wearing green on March 17.<\/p>\n

Green is deeply connected to Irish history and culture.\u00a0<\/strong>Ireland is nicknamed \u201cEmerald Isle,\u201d so it only made sense to wear green, but you’d be surprised to learn that it\u00a0was originally associated with the color blue<\/a>. After Irish immigrants started the first St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade<\/a> in New York City in the 1700s, the holiday became a staple in American culture, and green was widely accepted as the color to wear in its home country and across the state.<\/p>\n

Green has context with religion in Ireland.\u00a0<\/strong>St. Patrick\u2019s Day is a Catholic holiday, which commemorates Ireland\u2019s patron saint and the arrival of Christianity to the country. St. Patrick himself used a clover<\/a>, or a shamrock (which has three leaves) in his teachings about the Holy Trinity — the father, son, and the holy spirit. Shamrocks are also green and indicate the spring season!<\/p>\n

The green in the Irish flag is symbolic.\u00a0<\/strong>The Irish flag is divided into three strips of color — green, white, and orange. In Ireland, it’s common for Catholics to wear green and for Protestants to wear orange. And the white in the middle represents peace between the two groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Green helps keep the leprechauns away.\u00a0<\/strong>If history isn\u2019t enough to compel you to join the sea of emerald revelers, there’s the urban legend that wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day makes you invisible to leprechauns<\/a>…because we all know that leprechauns pinch anyone who isn’t wearing green.<\/p>\n

Now, with all this history in mind, you can proudly say, \u201cOn St. Patrick’s Day, we wear green\u201d and know why (shh, we won’t tell!).<\/p>\n

xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"\u201cOn Wednesdays, we wear pink.\u201d These five words ring true for many (um,\u00a0Mean Girls\u00a0anyone?!), however, ...","author":1477457,"featured_media":99670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[260],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/09102358\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-09-at-10.23.06-AM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/09102358\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-09-at-10.23.06-AM.jpg","formated_date":"March 9, 2017","category_name":"Life","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113832\/entertainment.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#b492e8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1477457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}