{"id":6,"date":"2005-12-25T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-04-21T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T03:15:54","slug":"heavenly-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lei Lani literally means heavenly garland, and the more figurative meaning is heavenly child. The beloved child in old Hawaii was carried on the shoulders of the parents, just like a necklace or garland of flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics007.com\/Chris%20Isaak%20Lyrics\/Sweet%20Leilani%20Lyrics.html\">The Idea that Leilani means heavenly flower comes from the Dennis Pavao song &#8220;Sweet Leilani&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From M. Kawena Pukui and S. H. Elberts Hawaiian Dictonary:<\/p>\n<p>Lani. 1. Sky, Heaven; heavenly, spiritual. 2. Very high chief, majestic, high born aristocratic<\/p>\n<p>Lei. 1 Lei, garland, wreath; necklace of flowers, leaves, shells, ivory, feathers, or paper; beads, any ornament worn around the shoulders or neck; to wear a lei; crown. Fig., a beloved child, wife, husband, sweetheart, younger sibling<\/p>\n<p><font color=blue>Lei Lani bedeutet himmlischer Blumenkranz und im uebertragenen Sinn himmlisches Kind. Das geliebte Kind im alten Hawaii wurde auf den Schultern der Eltern reitend getragen,  wie eine Halskette oder ein Blumenkranz<\/p>\n<p>Aus dem Woerterbuch:<\/p>\n<p>Lani. 1. Himmel; himmlisch, spirituell, 2. hoher Hauptling, Majestaetisch, adelig, aristokratisch<\/p>\n<p>Lei. 1 Lei, Girlande, Kranz; Blumenkette, Halskette aus Blaettern, Muscheln Bein, Federn, Papier.., jeder Schmuck der um Schultern oder Hals getragen wird; einen Lei, eine Krone tragen. Uebertagen ein geliebtes Kind, Ehepartner, Geliebte\/r, juengerere Bruder oder Schwester<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Leilani wearing a head lei<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/first-week\/7d-lei.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/7d-lei-600.jpg\" alt=\"Leilani with Lei\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wedding Leis<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/parents_in_the_ocean.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images\/parents_in_the_ocean-600.jpg\" alt=\"Sonja and Andy at our wedding wearing leis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificislandtravel.com\/hawaii\/about_destin\/flowerleimaking.html\">How to make Leis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiiflowerlei.com\/leitradition.asp\">History of Leis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii-tropical-flowers.com\/fresh_hawaiian_lei\/double_flower_leis.html\">Flower Leis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lei Lani literally means heavenly garland, and the more figurative meaning is heavenly child. The beloved child in old Hawaii was carried on the shoulders of the parents, just like a necklace or garland of flowers. The Idea that Leilani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}