{"id":825,"date":"2015-01-06T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-01-06T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:54:40","slug":"driving-home-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Driving home for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_826\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rudolf has many uses in Norway's Christmas celebrations\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0104-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rudolf has many uses in Norway&#8217;s Christmas celebrations<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have\u00a0heard the call of my\u00a0native Arctic north and have moved back to Norway in time for Christmas. After eight years of what I\u00a0consider to be dubious English Yuletide traditions, I&#8217;ve been\u00a0looking forward to getting back to a place where people take Christmas very seriously indeed. Here&#8217;s my report from Oslo, for Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2775527-norwegian-christmas\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAD-iq1TnWSoA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; min-width:300px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2775527-norwegian-christmas\">listen to \u2018Norwegian Christmas\u2019 on audioBoom<\/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\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0heard the call of my\u00a0native Arctic north and have moved back to Norway in time for Christmas. After eight years of what I\u00a0consider to be dubious English Yuletide traditions, I&#8217;ve been\u00a0looking forward to getting back to a place where people take Christmas very seriously indeed. Here&#8217;s my report from Oslo, for Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside [&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-825","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\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}