{"id":9724,"date":"2020-04-07T14:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/april-fools-day\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:34:15","slug":"april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9721&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">April Fool\u2019s Day<\/span> (April Fools\u2019 Day or All Fools\u2019 Day) is on April 1st. This annual event allows people to fool and play pranks on others, especially the ignorant ones \u2013 and children. One popular trick is to make a fool of someone by telling them their shoelaces are undone; when they bend down to tie them up the hoaxer shouts \u2018April Fool!\u2019. Another joke is to paste a paper fish on someone\u2019s back without them knowing.<br \/>\nAnyway, the exact historical origin of this custom is unknown. One explanation is that it comes from the Roman Hilaria festival of late March, celebrating the end of winter and the arrival of spring; its many games and joyful customs included fancy dressing and fooling others, based on the unpredictable weather as the seasons changed.<br \/>\nAnother possibility is that it dates from when Europe changed the start of a New Year from around late March to April 1st (based on the Julian calendar) to January 1st (based on the new Gregorian calendar, which is the one now in use). In modern times, a distinct memory of April\u2019s Fool Day is when a UK TV program broadcast footage of a Swiss family harvesting their spaghetti from their spaghetti tree, which successfully fooled a large number of viewers. By the way, this prank day is not connected to any religious agenda nor is it a national holiday.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/blog_\/\">&gt;&gt;&gt; Read more click &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April Fools\u2019 Day or All Fools\u2019 Day) is on April 1st. This annual event allows people to fool and play pranks on others, especially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":9722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auathailand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}