{"id":18344,"date":"2020-12-07T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=18344"},"modified":"2020-12-07T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T06:00:41","slug":"samichlaus-and-schmutzli-monday-7th-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/samichlaus-and-schmutzli-monday-7th-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Samichlaus and Schmutzli &#8211; Monday 7th December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-samichlaus-and-schmutzli\">Samichlaus and Schmutzli<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to tell you about Samichlaus and Schmutzli. You see, in my homeland of Switzerland yesterday was the day that Samichlaus and Schmutzli would have called at all the houses in Switzerland to leave gifts of fruit, nuts and gingerbread for the good children. In that way he is very like Father Christmas. However, he goes with Schmutzli and if children haven\u2019t been good they are bundled into Schmutzli\u2019s sack and taken off into the forest. Father Christmas here is far too nice to do things like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-no-rudolph\">No Rudolph<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Samichlaus doesn\u2019t have Rudolph as his companion but goes round from house to house with a donkey. I have seen Samichlaus myself a couple of years ago when he came to our house in Switzerland. I was just going out of the door as he arrived and I think we were both a bit surprised to see each other. Thankfully I had been a good girl and he left me with gifts of nuts and fruit. I would not like to have been taken away in the sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_6836-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Samichlaus and Schmutzli visiting me in Switzerland\" class=\"wp-image-15407\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-poem\">A Poem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday Mamma\u2019s human sent us the English translation of a lovely poem about Samichlaus coming to all good dogs. It is called Samichlaus-Versli. Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little light is burning in the forest<br>What does it mean?<br>Is Samichlaus coming soon?<br>I can hear his little bell.<br>It&#8217;s Samichlaus tramping<br>Come quickly and look<br>He is carrying a bag full of cookies<br>for all good dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a very lucky dog, being Swiss but living in Switzerland I can enjoy the best of both traditions. I shan\u2019t be seeing Father Christmas quite so close up this years, but I\u2019m still hoping he will call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2458.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma meeting Santa Claus when she was a puppy\" class=\"wp-image-11121\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wilma meeting Santa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilma tells you all about Samichlaus and Schmutzli a tradition in her homeland of Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[123,50,43,93],"class_list":["post-18344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","tag-christmas","tag-entlebucher","tag-switzerland","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}