{"id":315,"date":"2008-05-30T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:49","slug":"theres-no-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/315","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=1987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/gallery\/gallery2.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=1988&#038;g2_serialNumber=2&#038;g2_GALLERYSID=b1ba339fb2393d37fc015696e4c3dd3f\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"struj machine\" title=\"struj machine\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" \/><\/a>A couple of nights ago, we went to a concert in the main square of Tallinn.  A Slovenian industrial band called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strojmachine.com\/\">Stroj Machine<\/a> created their own earthquake through the old town.  Eleven people hammered away at 44 gallon drums, keyed compressed air through a ring of flutes, blew tubes of metal welded into trumpets and wound air-raid sirens.  I&#8217;d have bought an album if I had the space and was sure they&#8217;d be as interesting on a recording as they were live.<\/p>\n<p>We met a few of Merle&#8217;s friends and went to a bar to talk and listen to a Spanish jazz band.  There, we started talking about anthropology.  One of the friends, a man from Colombia who&#8217;s studying anthropology, said that he&#8217;d seen little interaction between the Russians and Estonians since he arrived (50% of the population are Estonian and 40% are Russians) and when they did interact, it was generally with animosity.  Merle, who&#8217;s spent years doing PR for the country, disputed this, saying that cultural communities within a mixed society were common everywhere and if they didn&#8217;t interact, there was no problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights ago, we went to a concert in the main square of Tallinn. A Slovenian industrial band called Stroj Machine created their own earthquake through the old town. Eleven people hammered away at 44 gallon drums, keyed compressed air through a ring of flutes, blew tubes of metal welded into trumpets and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/europe\/estonia\/315\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There&#8217;s no Problem<\/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\/315"}],"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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}