{"id":232804,"date":"2026-08-24T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/its-excruciating-welcome-to-bavarias-unusual-finger-wrestling-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:49:04","slug":"its-excruciating-welcome-to-bavarias-unusual-finger-wrestling-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/its-excruciating-welcome-to-bavarias-unusual-finger-wrestling-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s excruciating\u2019: Welcome to Bavaria\u2019s unusual finger wrestling championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competitors put strength, technique and tough skin to the test at Germany\u2019s finger wrestling championships in Bavaria. The traditional Alpine sport sees opponents hook their middle fingers into a leather loop and pull until one is dragged across the table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/08\/24\/its-excruciating-welcome-to-bavarias-unusual-finger-wrestling-championship\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competitors put strength, technique and tough skin to the test at Germany\u2019s finger wrestling championships in Bavaria. The traditional Alpine sport sees opponents hook their middle fingers into a leather loop and pull until one is dragged across the table. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":232805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}