{"id":310,"date":"2008-05-29T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","slug":"maidens-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/310","title":{"rendered":"Maidens&#8217; Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=1953&#038;g2_serialNumber=2&#038;g2_GALLERYSID=b1ba339fb2393d37fc015696e4c3dd3f\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"fallen maiden\" title=\"fallen maiden\" class=\"g2image_float_right\" \/><\/a>&#8216;Oh, don&#8217;t you know about the legend of the maiden?&#8217; asked a girl in a cream hooded cloak.<\/p>\n<p>Merle shook her head with me.  She&#8217;d told me that the Old Town was divided into the upper section (Danish landowners) and lower section (Estonian and Danish merchants) who didn&#8217;t get on.  The girl in the cloak sat at the bottom of a wall that separated the two.<\/p>\n<p> She continued in a sing-song Scandanavian accent.  &#8216;Well, there were bunch of maidens staying in that tower and one of them fell in love with a knight from the upper side, but they had to be secretive about their affair because they came from enemy sides.  So one night, the girl took a lantern and walked along the wall to where her lover would be.  It was a windy night and her lantern went out and she fell to her death.  She&#8217;s up in the tower still.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Oh, don&#8217;t you know about the legend of the maiden?&#8217; asked a girl in a cream hooded cloak. Merle shook her head with me. She&#8217;d told me that the Old Town was divided into the upper section (Danish landowners) and lower section (Estonian and Danish merchants) who didn&#8217;t get on. The girl in the cloak&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/310\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maidens&#8217; Tower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}