{"id":37436,"date":"2025-01-29T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37436"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:38:24","slug":"lerwick-up-helly-aa-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37436","title":{"rendered":"Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025"},"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<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-fMlc100BXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/vikings\">#vikings<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/inspiredbyshetland\">#inspiredbyshetland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hashtag\/islandsofopportunity\">#islandsofopportunity<\/a>1,000 blazing torches in less than 100 seconds. Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 at its brightest! \ud83d\udd25\u2728 Lerwick hosts the largest of Shetland&#8217;s fire festivals each year on the last Tuesday in January. Relive the best moments of the fiery procession in this short film. 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Lerwick Up Helly Aa 2025 at its brightest! \ud83d\udd25\u2728 Lerwick hosts the largest of Shetland&#8217;s fire festivals each year on the last Tuesday in January. Relive the best moments of the fiery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37437,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436\/revisions\/37437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}