{"id":710,"date":"2014-02-07T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=710"},"modified":"2014-02-07T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T09:48:47","slug":"debunking-the-debunked-myths-about-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the &#8220;debunked myths&#8221; about Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_711\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_6126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-711\" class=\"wp-image-711  \" alt=\"Norway: not what it's cracked up to be?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_6126-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_6126-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_6126-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norway: not what it&#8217;s cracked up to be?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>British journalist Michael Booth has stirred emotions in the Nordic countries this week with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/27\/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden#start-of-comments\">an article in the Guardian<\/a> based on his recent book &#8220;The Almost Nearly Perfect People&#8221;. In it he aims to debunk many of what he calls myths about the Nordic &#8220;miracle&#8221; which people in the UK have come to believe and admire. So how much of what he writes rings true? Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe decided to find out more &#8211; first by talking to Michael Booth and then hearing from me and London-based Danish journalist Ellen Otzen:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1904160-debunking-the-debunked-myths-of-scandinavia\/embed?eid=AQAAALuq9FIgDh0A\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/1904160-debunking-the-debunked-myths-of-scandinavia\">listen to \u2018Debunking the debunked myths of Scandinavia\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; British journalist Michael Booth has stirred emotions in the Nordic countries this week with an article in the Guardian based on his recent book &#8220;The Almost Nearly Perfect People&#8221;. In it he aims to debunk many of what he calls myths about the Nordic &#8220;miracle&#8221; which people in the UK have come to believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}