{"id":8739,"date":"2010-08-02T23:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/8739"},"modified":"2010-08-02T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:30:26","slug":"monuments-and-public-art-in-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8739","title":{"rendered":"Monuments and Public Art in Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like any reasonably large city, Tallinn, Estonia has a wealth of monuments and public art. Among the most beloved figures is Gustav Ernesaks, one of the founders of the Singing Revolution and the Tallinn Music Festival. Voldemar Panso was the first leader of the drama school of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. The Rusalka monument commemorates the sinking of a Russian battleship of the same name in 1893. Finally, some Estonian graffiti: art in art itself, professing &#8220;<a title=\"Retro Futurism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retro_futurism\" target=\"_self\">Retro-Futurism<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gustav-Ernesaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8750\" title=\"Gustav Ernesaks\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Gustav-Ernesaks-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gustav Ernesaks\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gustav Ernesaks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Gustav Ernesaks (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-Voldemar-Panso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8751\" title=\"Voldemar Panso\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-Voldemar-Panso-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Voldemar Panso\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Voldemar Panso<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Voldemar Panso (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rusalka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8752\" title=\"Rusalka\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Rusalka-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Rusalka\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rusalka<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0Rusalka (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Retrofuturism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8755\" title=\"Retro-Futurism\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Retrofuturism-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Retro-Futurism\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Retro-Futurism<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0Retro-Futurism\u00c2\u00a0(Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any reasonably large city, Tallinn, Estonia has a wealth of monuments and public art. Among the most beloved figures is Gustav Ernesaks, one of the founders of the Singling Revolution and the Tallinn Music Festival. Voldemar Panso was the first leader of the drama school of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. The Rusalka monument commemorates the sinking of a Russian battleship of the same name in 1893. Finally, some Estonian graffitti: art in art itself, professing &#8220;Retro-Futurism&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,243],"class_list":["post-8739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-tallinn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2gX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}