{"id":731,"date":"2025-06-23T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/?page_id=731"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:08:42","slug":"helsinki-june-22-2025-night-of-the-midnight-sun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/helsinki-june-22-2025-night-of-the-midnight-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki June 22 2025 Night of the Midnight Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s midnight in Helsinki on summer solstice +2. The street lights were on but they really didn’t need to be. It looked like dusk all around; orange and red on the horizon, not quite dark up above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was quiet as to be expected of any Sunday night. People that were out walked quietly about their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this fine orthodox church just didn’t want to come in focus for me no matter what I tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s midnight in Helsinki on summer solstice +2. The street lights were on but they really didn’t need to be. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-731","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/731\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joestravellog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}