{"id":1294,"date":"2023-12-07T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T11:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T11:48:25","slug":"2023-trafalgar-christmas-tree-will-look-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"2023 Trafalgar Christmas tree &#8220;will look great&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-1024x646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-1024x646.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-300x189.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-768x485.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-1536x969.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Trafalgar-tree-2023-2048x1293.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>UK Ambassador to Norway Jan Thompson watches as Lord Mayor of Westminster Patricia McAllister and Oslo Mayor Anne Lindboe fell the 2023 Trafalgar Christmas tree. (Photo: Lars Bevanger)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  Trafalgar Christmas tree in London has just been officially lit. It is an annual gift from the city of Oslo as a thank-you for Britain\u2019s support for Norway during World War Two. But in recent years, some Londoners have complained the tree is too scrawny and droopy. So I went to check out this year\u2019s offering on the day it was cut down in the Oslo forest, and to ask a few questions about the quality of the spruce. Here is my report for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-30-november-2023\/audio-67598830\">Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BEVANGER-Trafalgar-Christams.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Ambassador to Norway Jan Thompson watches as Lord Mayor of Westminster Patricia McAllister and Oslo Mayor Anne Lindboe fell the 2023 Trafalgar Christmas tree. (Photo: Lars Bevanger) The Trafalgar Christmas tree in London has just been officially lit. It is an annual gift from the city of Oslo as a thank-you for Britain\u2019s support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}