{"id":5293,"date":"2026-06-23T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:43:07","slug":"day-49-the-bonfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5293","title":{"rendered":"Day 49: The Bonfire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">The day started with booking another night at the hotel. Thankfully our room was available again. She said this hotel is always full!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">There are a few rules to staying at this hotel. Everyone has to wear clothes between 8pm and 8am, and you can\u2019t wear any clothing into the pool. But you can wander the streets and the beach with nothing on. Weird huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">At 9pm we took a nice stroll along the beach, the mediterranean pounding on the shore. It was too rough to swim, but we paddled our feet and the water was really warm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">But by 10am, it was hot! So we found a shaded spot by the pool then spent another hour sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not sure how we do it, but we always seem to arrive somewhere during a traditional festival. Earlier in the day, I saw them setting up a huge bonfire with what looked like a pile of old rubbish ready to burn. It turned out it was for San Juan, a midsummer festival celebrated on the night of June 23. Traditionally, people gather around bonfires, enjoy fireworks and parties, and burn old belongings as a symbol of leaving the past behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The hotel hosted a beach party that started at 10pm with a live band and dancing. Then, at midnight, they set off a fireworks display before lighting the bonfire on the beach. It was really cool to see bonfires stretching all the way along the shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">As a result, we didn\u2019t get to bed before 1.30am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started with booking another night at the hotel. Thankfully our room was available again. She said this hotel is always full! There are a few rules to staying at this hotel. Everyone has to wear clothes between 8pm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=5293\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-1nn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}