{"id":3137,"date":"2013-03-31T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2013-03-30T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T12:47:11","slug":"happy-eostre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/happy-eostre\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Eostre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3139\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px 3px;\" title=\"Eostre Beer, Howard Town Brewery\" alt=\"Eostre Beer, Howard Town Brewery\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/eostre.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/eostre.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/eostre-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/eostre-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Christian holiday called Easter may or may not be named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre who may or may not be related to the Germanic goddess Ostara.\u00a0It is not, despite what you may have read, named after the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Ishtar was, by all accounts, a really fun lady and probably deserves some sort of holiday but Easter isn&#8217;t it. It&#8217;s not 100% certain that Easter is Eostre&#8217;s either but it is certain that this beer was named for her. That&#8217;s her picture right there in the middle of the label. Eostre &#8212; the beer &#8212; is brewed by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardtownbrewery.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Town Brewery<\/a> in\u00a0Glossop, England. HTB&#8217;s website lists the quantity of each beer currently available and for Eostre that amount is zip. Bummer. No way to have a Happy Eostre just now, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3138\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px 3px;\" title=\"Ishtar, Babylonian goddess of love and war\" alt=\"Ishtar, Babylonian goddess of love and war\" src=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/\/\/\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ishtar.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ishtar.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ishtar-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ishtar-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Until the folks in Glossop get around to brewing another batch of Eostre, I suggest we work on getting this divine Babylonian her own holiday. We could celebrate it by wearing wings and leaving our hats on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian holiday called Easter may or may not be named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre who may or may not be related to the Germanic goddess Ostara.\u00a0It is not, despite what you may have read, named after the Babylonian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/happy-eostre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[20],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-holiday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WE0S-OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}