{"id":1169,"date":"2014-12-30T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2014-12-30T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:29:15","slug":"10-new-years-facts-you-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college-fun\/10-new-years-facts-you-probably-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"10 New Years Facts You Probably Didn’t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t2015 is almost here and while most American\u2019s spend New Years Eve taking part in annual traditions, they probably aren’t familiar with how or why they started. We\u2019ve scoured the World Wide Web to find you this list of 10 things you probably didn\u2019t know about New Years. Feel free to wow your friends on New Years Eve and well into 2015 with these gems of information.<\/p>\n

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  1. More than a billion people around the world will watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/li>\n
  2. The Ball was first dropped in New York in 1907. It was made of wood and weighed 700lbs.<\/li>\n
  3. The famous New Year\u2019s song Auld Lang Syne translates roughly to \u201cthe good old days.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. The first New York New Years celebration was commemorated in 1904 by a fireworks display.<\/li>\n
  5. 46 percent of Americans make New Years Resolutions. Only about 25 percent keep them.<\/li>\n
  6. If you eat leafy greens on New Year\u2019s the more prosperous you will be in the new year. Legumes and beans are also said to bring added wealth.<\/li>\n
  7. It\u2019s expected that 360 million glasses of sparkling wine will be consumed during the holiday.<\/li>\n
  8. More cars are stolen on New Years Day than any other holiday.<\/li>\n
  9. People in Italy wear red underwear on New Years Day to bring them luck during the rest of the year.<\/li>\n
  10. The top three places to celebrate New Years Eve are: New York, Las Vegas and Disney World.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What will you be doing this New Year\u2019s Eve?<\/p>\n

    Photo credit:\u00a0Paul Wilkinson<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    2015 is almost here and while most American\u2019s spend New Years Eve taking part in annual traditions, they probably aren’t familiar with how or why…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}