{"id":135,"date":"2018-10-19T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/uzupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:32:37","slug":"uzupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/uzupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"U\u017eupis: A tiny republic of free spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20181014-uupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits'>U\u017eupis: A tiny republic of free spirits<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>&ldquo;What began as a tongue-in-cheek April Fools\u2019 Day joke has evolved into one of the smallest republics in the world, with its own government, constitution and currency. &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : &ldquo;Meaning \u2018beyond the river\u2019 in Lithuanian, U\u017eupis is separated from the rest of the city by the Vilnele River. The republic celebrates its independence annually on 1 April, known locally as U\u017eupis Day. On this day, travellers can get their passports stamped as they cross the bridge into the republic (every other day, the border is not guarded), use the local (unofficial) currency and treat themselves to the beer that flows from the water spout in the main square (yes, really).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U\u017eupis: A tiny republic of free spirits &ldquo;What began as a tongue-in-cheek April Fools\u2019 Day joke has evolved into one of the smallest republics in the world, with its own government, constitution and currency. &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : &ldquo;Meaning \u2018beyond the river\u2019 in Lithuanian, U\u017eupis is separated from the rest of the city by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/uzupis-a-tiny-republic-of-free-spirits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U\u017eupis: A tiny republic of free spirits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fbshare","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}