{"id":100203,"date":"2021-12-27T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=100203"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:31:03","slug":"new-year-fireworks-display-in-saaremaa-to-be-replaced-with-ice-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/new-year-fireworks-display-in-saaremaa-to-be-replaced-with-ice-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year fireworks display in Saaremaa to be replaced with ice sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Saaremaa municipal government has decided not to hold an official New Year&#8217;s fireworks display on the island this year. This decision is a growing trend in Estonia, with a number of other municipalities also deciding to remove fireworks from their New Year programs. According to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Saaremaa deputy Mayor <span class=\"s1\">Koit Vooj\u00e4rv, <\/span>&#8220;<span class=\"s1\"><i>the coronavirus situation has escalated around the world, there are many signs of danger, and that is one of the reasons for why Saaremaa municipality government decided against organizing a fireworks show this year.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">As a result of this decision being made so close to New Year, the local government did not have any alternative ideas for the celebrations. This has not stopped a number of Orissaare&nbsp;residents who have already started to create ice sculptures \u2013 with 3 already on display in Orissaare. In the opinion of sculptor Elo Liiv,&nbsp;the ice sculptures create &#8220;<i>a similar &#8216;wow&#8217;-effect to fireworks<\/i>. Going on to add that &#8220;<i>you could use sound and lighting equipment too, which many Estonian cities already do.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Depending on the weather, the sculptures could last well beyond New Year and far into 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">Source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1608444983\/saaremaa-opts-for-ice-sculptures-instead-of-fireworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ERR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Saaremaa municipal government has decided not to hold an official New Year&#8217;s fireworks display on the island this &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":100204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13072,13583,13594,13619,13662,13663,13664,13665],"class_list":["post-100203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-estonia-2","tag-saaremaa-2","tag-new-year-fireworks","tag-new-year-celebrations","tag-new-year","tag-saaremaa-new-year","tag-ice-sculptures","tag-fireworks-display"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100210,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100203\/revisions\/100210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}