{"id":567,"date":"2013-04-09T03:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-04-09T03:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:40:55","slug":"solfesten-2013-the-sun-festival-in-rjukan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Solfesten 2013 &#8211; The Sun Festival in Rjukan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_5163618677d406722563043\">\n<div id=\"attachment_568\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CIMG1318.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-568\" alt=\"Sun Baby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CIMG1318-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CIMG1318-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CIMG1318-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrying the &#8220;Sun Baby&#8221;, with the parents<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rjukan VGS is located on the floor of Rjukan valley, a\u00a0 deep V-shaped glacial valley that was curved out by glaciers some 12.000 years ago. The valley goes without the sun&#8217;s rays for close to six months from October to March. So when the su&#8230;n&#8217;s rays first touch the valley on 12th March, there is reason to celebrate, hence the Solfesten (the sun festival) This year&#8217;s festival was held on 6th April.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The baby born on that day is called the sun baby and is given many gifts by the community. This year&#8217;s sun baby is born to a Ugandan family living in Rjukan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More photos of the festival can be accessed from the Radio Rjukan facebook page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.363553977091135.1073741825.180979705348564&amp;type=3\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.363553977091135.1073741825.180979705348564&amp;type=3<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rjukan VGS is located on the floor of Rjukan valley, a\u00a0 deep V-shaped glacial valley that was curved out by glaciers some 12.000 years ago. The valley goes without the sun&#8217;s rays for close to six months from October to March. So when the su&#8230;n&#8217;s rays first touch the valley on 12th March, there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kalsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}