{"id":897,"date":"2015-09-15T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=897"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T11:33:25","slug":"syrian-refugees-welcome-in-svalbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Syrian refugees &#8220;welcome in Svalbard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_898\" style=\"width: 1497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1429123820.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1429123820.jpg\" alt=\"Cold reception: Svalbard is closer to the North Pole than to Oslo\" width=\"1487\" height=\"911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1429123820.jpg 1487w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1429123820-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1429123820-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1487px) 100vw, 1487px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cold reception: Svalbard is closer to the North Pole than to Oslo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A local chapter of the Norwegian Green Party on\u00a0the remote Arctic island of Svalbard have suggested Syrian refugees could be housed there. The main settlement houses some 2,500 people, outnumbered by around\u00a03,000 polar bears roaming the rest of the archipelago. I explained more about the thinking about the idea on <a href=\"http:\/\/monocle.com\/radio\/shows\/the-briefing\/\">The Briefing on Monocle 24<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"audioBoom player\" src=\"\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/boos\/3575452-refugees-welcome-in-svalbard\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAAD_91WcjjYA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local chapter of the Norwegian Green Party on\u00a0the remote Arctic island of Svalbard have suggested Syrian refugees could be housed there. The main settlement houses some 2,500 people, outnumbered by around\u00a03,000 polar bears roaming the rest of the archipelago. I explained more about the thinking about the idea on The Briefing on Monocle 24:<\/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-897","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\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}