{"id":16028,"date":"2026-02-25T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16028"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:24:00","slug":"strange-festival-of-san-bartolome-de-pinares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16028","title":{"rendered":"Strange festival of San Bartolome de Pinares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvadTHulkAI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year on January 16, the town <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2025-spain-horse-fire-festival-extraordinary-photo#\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2025-spain-horse-fire-festival-extraordinary-photo#\">celebrates the traditional Luminarias festival<\/a>.\u00a0Purportedly held for five centuries, the origins of the festival trace back to a\u00a0ritual purification\u00a0to preserve the health of the horses in the village.\u00a0Bonfires\u00a0are lit in the central streets, and horses jump through the flames, with the smoke intended to protect the animals from disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year on January 16, the town celebrates the traditional Luminarias festival.\u00a0Purportedly held for five centuries, the origins of the festival trace back to a\u00a0ritual purification\u00a0to preserve the health of the horses in the village.\u00a0Bonfires\u00a0are lit in the central streets, and horses jump through the flames, with the smoke intended to protect the animals from disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4aw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16030,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}