{"id":17,"date":"2007-12-31T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-young-male-mind-at-work-in-romania-17.htm"},"modified":"2007-12-31T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:31:14","slug":"the-young-male-mind-at-work-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-young-male-mind-at-work-in-romania-17.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Young Male Mind at Work in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Mitteleuropa has the tradition of the New Year\u2019s Eve Dust Up. It involves, as always, young men, and their motives are the same the world over.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><a href=\"http:\/\/derstandard.at\/\">Der Standard<\/a> reports:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\"><em>Buchares<\/em>t<\/st1:city>: The Romanian police on Monday morning ended the traditional Sylvester Fight in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">village<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Ruginoasa<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> with a tear gas attack. In the settlement near the northeast city of <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Iasi<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> every year on New Year\u2019s Eve the young men, costumed in sheep skins and divided into groups, go at each other with truncheons, to impress the girls.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Because there were wounded in past years, the police were present with 200 men in battle uniform, as the Romanian station Realitatea reported. Many of the village dwellers let loose on the officials and destroyed their protective shields. It was not reported how many wounded there were. By this originally imaginary symbolic action, the \u201cNew Year\u2019s <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Battle<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>,\u201d of Ruginoasa,<span>\u00a0 <\/span>the \u201cvictorious\u201d troop wins the right to woo the girls.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asrocatolic.ro\/imagini\/ciangai.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asrocatolic.ro\/imagini\/ciangai.jpg\" height=\"329\" \/><\/font><\/o:p><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Unimpressed Maidens of Ruginoasa<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17\" data-postid=\"17\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitteleuropa has the tradition of the New Year\u2019s Eve Dust Up. It involves, as always, young men, and their motives are the same the world over. &nbsp; Der Standard reports: Bucharest: The Romanian police on Monday morning ended the traditional Sylvester Fight in the village of Ruginoasa with a tear gas attack. In the settlement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}