{"id":20833,"date":"2025-04-15T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20833\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:41:11","slug":"video-germanys-sorbian-minority-prepares-traditional-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20833\/","title":{"rendered":"Video. Germany&#8217;s Sorbian minority prepares traditional Easter eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            Updated: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 16:53 GMT+2<\/p>\n<p>Modern-day Sorbs are descended from Slavic tribes in Central and Eastern Europe who settled in Germany some 1,500 years ago.<br \/>\n              \u2026 More<\/p>\n<p>Members of Germany\u2019s ethnic Sorbian minority have begun preparing Easter Eggs using a traditional method that dates back to the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>Dots of coloured wax are applied to dyed eggs, creating intricate patterns.<\/p>\n<p>The process can take between 90 minutes and six hours, depending on the techniques used, the motif and the size of the egg.<\/p>\n<p>Modern-day Sorbs are descended from Slavic tribes in Central and Eastern Europe who settled in Germany some 1,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>About 60,000 Sorbs currently live in Germany, split between the federal states of Saxony and Brandenburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 16:53 GMT+2 Modern-day Sorbs are descended from Slavic tribes in Central and Eastern Europe who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[13495,13499,13503,2000,299,1824,13500,13504,13496,13502,13506,13498,13501,13505,13497],"class_list":{"0":"post-20833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-id125","9":"tag-id14416","10":"tag-id7912","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-slugeaster","15":"tag-slugethnic-minorities","16":"tag-sluggermany","17":"tag-titleeaster","18":"tag-titleethnic-minorities","19":"tag-titlegermany","20":"tag-urlsafevalueeaster","21":"tag-urlsafevalueethnic-minorities","22":"tag-urlsafevaluegermany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114339675221626653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}