{"id":835,"date":"2015-03-09T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=835"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:06:46","slug":"pro-boxing-returns-to-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Pro boxing returns to Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0581\" width=\"2448\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0581-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a>What does Norway have in common with North Korea and Iran? Well, until recently you\u2019d be a criminal if you entered the ring in a professional boxing match in any of those countries. But now Norway&#8217;s centre-right government has lifted a ban on the sport, and boxing fans are preparing for the first professional bout on Norwegian soil in more than three decades. Meanwhile medical professionals AND Norway\u2019s Confederation of Sports are protesting. Here&#8217;s my report for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qskw\">PM Programme on BBC Radio 4<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboom.com\/boos\/2967558-norway-drops-pro-boxing-ban\/embed\/v3?eid=AQAAAAVi_VQGSC0A\" 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\/2967558-norway-drops-pro-boxing-ban\">listen to \u2018Norway drops pro boxing ban\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>What does Norway have in common with North Korea and Iran? Well, until recently you\u2019d be a criminal if you entered the ring in a professional boxing match in any of those countries. But now Norway&#8217;s centre-right government has lifted a ban on the sport, and boxing fans are preparing for the first professional bout [&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-835","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\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}