{"id":1253,"date":"2026-01-24T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:47:34","slug":"first-pictures-from-the-opening-of-hancock-finno-ugric-capital-of-culture-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/news\/first-pictures-from-the-opening-of-hancock-finno-ugric-capital-of-culture-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"First pictures from the opening of Hancock &#8211; Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festive handover of the Tsirk bird &#8211; the symbol of the Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture programme &#8211; took place during the annual Heikinp\u00e4iv\u00e4 mid-winter fesitivities in Hancock. Congratulations, Hancock, Copper Country and Finnish America!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c791fd8-ba3d-4e70-be0d-2ef7027a4a28-18x12.jpeg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1255\" src=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fece2daa-3c84-45bf-a748-acfa30308fb6-18x12.jpeg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7a8b92fc-bea6-4f58-9901-700bf561252f-1-9x12.jpeg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hancock2-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festive handover of the Tsirk bird &#8211; the symbol of the Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture programme &#8211; took place during the annual Heikinp\u00e4iv\u00e4 mid-winter fesitivities in Hancock. Congratulations, Hancock, Copper Country and Finnish America!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitals.uralic.org\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}