{"id":13351,"date":"2017-06-28T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:50:25","slug":"wifecarryingfinland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wifecarryingfinland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wife-Carrying Competition in Sonkaj\u00e4rvi, Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nFinland, also know as the Land of the Thousand Lakes, is a beautiful place where friendly people find friendly people. Finland also has one of the most fun and unique championships, the Wife-Carrying World Championships. This competition has taken place since 1992 inspired by a famous wife-stealing from the past, and also by an infamous robber named Rosvo-Ronkainen from the late 19th century who made potential crew members compete in an obstacle course carrying heavy sacks on their backs. Over 40 couples participate with 10,000 plus visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/teach-in-Finland.htm\">TESOL certification to teach English abroad in Finland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland, also know as the Land of the Thousand Lakes, is a beautiful place where friendly people find friendly people. Finland also has one of the most fun and unique&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1122],"tags":[1891,2164,2165],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-teach-abroad","tag-teachabroad","tag-finland","tag-scandinavia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15229,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/15229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}