{"id":5150,"date":"2021-02-05T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:03:44","slug":"up-helly-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/2021\/02\/05\/up-helly-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Helly Aa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week would have been one of the most important in our school calendar &#8211; the week leading to Up Helly Aa. This is the first of our Unst fire festivals; celebrating the closing of Winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In normal times, we would have spent much the previous months planning, designing, making and building in the lead up a torch-lit procession and a weekend of entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, in 2021 it has been postponed due to COVID-19 although this excellent video clip by Promote Shetland captures what it means to us and what we are looking forward to returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re paying attention, you will see former students, staff and members of the community in the video &#8211; can you spot them all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/3sQ3bszFRL\/\">https:\/\/fb.watch\/3sQ3bszFRL\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week would have been one of the most important in our school calendar &#8211; the week leading to Up Helly Aa. This is the first of our Unst fire festivals; celebrating the closing of Winter. In normal times, we would have spent much the previous months planning, designing, making and building in the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unst.org\/web\/bjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}