{"id":1591,"date":"2025-12-31T13:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:11:41","slug":"chess-and-fireworks-its-a-norwegian-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Chess and fireworks \u2013 it&#8217;s a Norwegian Christmas story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-1024x1018.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-1024x1018.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-300x298.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-768x763.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-1536x1527.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist.png 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the last day of 2025, I join The Globalist on Monocle Radio to talk about why Norwegians are obsessed with chess, why they just know when Christmas is actually over and why people like me should be kept away from fireworks tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Globalist-31.12.25.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of 2025, I join The Globalist on Monocle Radio to talk about why Norwegians are obsessed with chess, why they just know when Christmas is actually over and why people like me should be kept away from fireworks tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}