{"id":6702,"date":"2024-04-12T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6702"},"modified":"2024-04-12T04:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:58:45","slug":"7-8-and-9-french-classes-celebrate-poisson-davril","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/7-8-and-9-french-classes-celebrate-poisson-davril\/","title":{"rendered":"7, 8, and 9 French classes celebrate Poisson D&#8217;Avril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 1st has an interesting history in France, as it was once celebrated as the start of the new year. When this date moved to January in the 1600s, word was slow to travel to some areas of France, and people who continued to celebrate on the old date were mocked. As many people were celebrating Lent and consuming fish, those unaware of the date change were given fake fish as gifts. Over time, this has turned into the French version of April\u2019s Fools day, where French children craft paper fish, write POISSON D\u2019AVRIL somewhere on them, and try to stick them onto their friend\u2019s back, either running away yelling \u201cPoisson d\u2019avril!\u201d or sneaking away and waiting for the discovery. \u2018Poisson d\u2019avril\u2019 translates to Fish of April, or April Fish!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To celebrate this important occasion, the year 7, 8, and 9 French classes had the opportunity to make their own poissons d\u2019avril to sneakily stick onto a friend\u2019s back. Look at some of their beautiful creations below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr de Jong <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">French Teacher<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1st has an interesting history in France, as it was once celebrated as the start of the new year. When this date moved to January in the 1600s, word was slow to travel to some areas of France, and people who continued to celebrate on the old date were mocked. As many people were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-6702","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}