{"id":754,"date":"2014-05-28T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=754"},"modified":"2014-05-28T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:34:23","slug":"secular-norway-grapples-with-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Secular Norway grapples with circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_755\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/017601182_30300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-755\" alt=\"Few Jews: Norway's small Jewish community feels threatened by anti-circumcision sentiment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/017601182_30300-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/017601182_30300-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/017601182_30300.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few Jews: Norway&#8217;s small Jewish community feels threatened by anti-circumcision sentiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Norway, the government wants to bring the procedure for male circumcision into the public health service. Opponents say no healthy baby boys should be operated on and want a ban, while Jewish and Muslim leaders welcome the government\u2019s proposal, arguing a ban would effectively exclude Muslims and Jews from living in Norway. Here&#8217;s my report from Oslo for the BBC:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2202758-secular-norway-s-battle-with-male-circumcision\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAHmfhVOGnCEA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\" style=\"background-color:transparent;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2202758-secular-norway-s-battle-with-male-circumcision\">listen to &#x2018;Secular Norway&#39;s battle with male circumcision&#x2019; on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Norway, the government wants to bring the procedure for male circumcision into the public health service. Opponents say no healthy baby boys should be operated on and want a ban, while Jewish and Muslim leaders welcome the government\u2019s proposal, arguing a ban would effectively exclude Muslims and Jews from living in Norway. Here&#8217;s my [&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-754","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\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}