{"id":1309,"date":"2024-01-02T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2024-01-02T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:12:15","slug":"bodo-is-first-ever-arctic-european-capital-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Bod\u00f8 is first-ever Arctic European Capital of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bodo2024_Foto_Dan_Mariner_17-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Dan Mariner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, this has never happened before:\u00a0This year, an Arctic city is European Capital of Culture.\u00a0Bod\u00f8\u00a0in Northern Norway\u00a0is a\u00a0city of just over 50,000 people\u00a0and\u00a0is about to be put firmly on the map. And as I report in this piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-4-january-2024\/audio-67797541\">Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe<\/a>, the culture capital programme has a strong focus on the\u00a0Arctic\u00a0region\u2019s spectacular nature and on its indigenous Sami culture and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEVANGER-Bodo-Culture-Capital.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Dan Mariner Now, this has never happened before:\u00a0This year, an Arctic city is European Capital of Culture.\u00a0Bod\u00f8\u00a0in Northern Norway\u00a0is a\u00a0city of just over 50,000 people\u00a0and\u00a0is about to be put firmly on the map. And as I report in this piece for Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe, the culture capital programme has a strong focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","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\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}