{"id":2461,"date":"2023-04-13T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:30:47","slug":"easter-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/easter-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/340788530_184622167291298_2880382688607546592_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/340788530_184622167291298_2880382688607546592_n.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/340788530_184622167291298_2880382688607546592_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/340788530_184622167291298_2880382688607546592_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><figcaption>Back view of kids outdoors dressed for Easter traditional celebration in Finland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we asked one of our Finnish teachers to share how the Finns celebrate Easter and to tell us about their traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEaster gives a break for the Finnish from the familiarities of everyday life. Many of them travel to Lapland to see the last snow of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Palm Sunday, which is the start of the Holy Week, children dress up as little witches and wizards in colorful costumes and roam the streets going from door to door. They ring the doorbells, shouting their magic spell \u201cVirvon, varvon, tuoreeks terveeks, tulevaks vuodeks; vitsa sulle, palkka mulle.\u201d promising good health in exchange for small gifts, sweets and coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A traditional Finnish Easter meal includes lamb and a dark brown pudding made of rye, called m\u00e4mmi.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we asked one of our Finnish teachers to share how the Finns celebrate Easter and to tell us about &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}