{"id":5195,"date":"2026-11-05T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5195"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:12:14","slug":"meskel-bonfire-throwing-sparks-into-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5195","title":{"rendered":"Meskel bonfire throwing sparks into the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/meskel-bonfire-throwing-sparks-into-the-night-sky.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A tall bonfire burning at night with sparks rising high above it and a large crowd standing in the background\" class=\"wp-image-5194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/meskel-bonfire-throwing-sparks-into-the-night-sky.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/meskel-bonfire-throwing-sparks-into-the-night-sky.jpg?resize=250%2C375&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>A large Meskel bonfire, known as the Demera, sends sparks high into the night sky as a crowd gathers around it. The photographer shared it on Meskel in September 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A large Meskel bonfire, known as the Demera, sends sparks high into the night sky as a crowd gathers around it. The photographer shared it on Meskel in September 2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HilenaTafesse\/status\/2103919632407216471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilena Tafesse (@HilenaTafesse) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large Meskel bonfire, known as the Demera, sends sparks high into the night sky as a crowd gathers around it. The photographer shared it on Meskel in September 2026. A large Meskel bonfire, known as the Demera, sends sparks high into the night sky as a crowd gathers around it. The photographer shared it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2753],"tags":[2827,108,2768,2828,2826],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-demera","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopian-orthodox-church","tag-festivals","tag-meskel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/meskel-bonfire-throwing-sparks-into-the-night-sky.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}