{"id":2291,"date":"2015-01-22T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:23:15","slug":"turnips-fly-at-the-jarramplas-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/turnips-fly-at-the-jarramplas-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnips fly at the Jarramplas Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2292\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2292 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-732-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-732\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-732-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-732-600x761.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-732.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">flying turnips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every January, on Saint Sebastian Day, the streets of Piornal, Spain, fill with residents armed with turnips, seeking to punish the Jarramplas. The Jarramplas is a devil-like character portrayed by a man wearing a costume made from colorful strips of fabric, a frightening mask, and body armor underneath. In a centuries-old tradition, he walks the streets and beats a drum while residents throw turnips at him as a punishment for stealing cattle. <!--more-->This was written by Alan Taylor. For more photos taken at the Festival, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2015\/01\/turnips-fly-at-the-jarramplas-festival\/384660\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2015\/01\/turnips-fly-at-the-jarramplas-festival\/384660\/\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we Americans have fun like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every January, on Saint Sebastian Day, the streets of Piornal, Spain, fill with residents armed with turnips, seeking to punish the Jarramplas. The Jarramplas is a devil-like character portrayed by a man wearing a costume made from colorful strips of fabric, a frightening mask, and body armor underneath. In a centuries-old tradition, he walks the streets and beats a drum while residents throw turnips at him as a punishment for stealing cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}