{"id":31216,"date":"2017-06-01T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T08:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=31216"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T08:36:01","slug":"fire-jumping-and-white-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/fire-jumping-and-white-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-jumping and white nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">f you happen to be in Tallinn for Midsummer, you\u2019ll notice that there aren\u2019t many Estonians around. Midsummer or St John\u2019s Eve and St John\u2019s Day are celebrated on June 23 and 24 in connection with the summer solstice, a day where the sun almost doesn\u2019t set. Many locals leave for the countryside, to their cottages in the forest, by a lake, or to the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">According to legend it is the night when the young girl Eha meets the young boy Koit. Eha means evening twilight and Koit morning twilight. On Midsummer\u2019s night the two youngsters only meet for a short kiss, then they part and have to wait to meet for a whole year again! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Midsummer\u2019s Eve is celebrated outdoors and nobody goes to sleep. People gather, sing and dance. Activities are centred around a big bonfire and food is prepared on a barbeque. There is also the tradition of jumping over the bonfire, which according to the legend is a guarantee for prosperity and to avoid bad luck. Others claim that it is a symbol for a connection with the past. But if you see one of these bonfires, you\u2019d wonder how anyone could over something so big. The good fortune must come from not falling in!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Where to celebrate? In Tallinn, Midsummer\u2019s Eve, June 23 is celebrated at the Estonian Open Air Museum at Rocca al Mare with food, music, and dance. Midsummer\u2019s Eve is equally celebrated in cities like Tartu, P\u00e4rnu, Kuressaare, and Haapsalu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Happy travels!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Kristina Lupp,<br \/>\n<\/b>Editor-in-chief<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be in Tallinn for Midsummer, you\u2019ll notice that there aren\u2019t many Estonians around. Midsummer or St &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17651,"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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216","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=31216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}