{"id":1540,"date":"2025-08-31T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:08:58","slug":"elections-oil-fund-bulldozers-and-the-wrong-kind-of-sand-the-week-in-norwegian-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Elections, oil fund, bulldozers and the wrong kind of sand\u00a0\u2013 the week in Norwegian news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"1487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Norway&#8217;s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo&#8217;s trams have come to a shuddering halt due to&#8230; the wrong kind of sand. And the oil fund has pulled out of US machine giant Caterpillar over its involvement in Gaza and the West Bank. I dive into the news in Norway on Monocle on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Monocle-on-Sunday-31.08.25-PART-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Monocle-on-Sunday-31.08.25-PART-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo&#8217;s trams have come to a shuddering halt due to&#8230; the wrong kind of sand. And the oil fund has pulled out of US machine giant Caterpillar over its involvement in Gaza and the West Bank. I dive into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","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\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}