{"id":1300,"date":"2023-12-18T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:06:27","slug":"old-us-embassy-becomes-oslos-latest-eating-and-drinking-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Old US Embassy becomes Oslo&#8217;s latest eating and drinking hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/The-Saarinen-Room-Vinland-Brasserie-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>American embassies are among the best-protected buildings in the world. But it was not always so. When the US embassy in Oslo, Norway, opened in 1959, it was a cultural hub with a library and regular concerts for the locals. Increased global tension and not least 9\/11 put an end to all that. The embassy has sat empty since diplomats moved to new quarters in 2017 but has now thrown its doors open once more \u2013 with a collection of restaurants, bars, a music venue and even a gym. I went to find out more and made this report for <a href=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/monocle-on-saturday\/184\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/monocle-on-saturday\/184\/\">Monocle on Saturday<\/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-Oslo-Old-US-Embassy.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American embassies are among the best-protected buildings in the world. But it was not always so. When the US embassy in Oslo, Norway, opened in 1959, it was a cultural hub with a library and regular concerts for the locals. Increased global tension and not least 9\/11 put an end to all that. The embassy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","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\/1300","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=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}