{"id":27995,"date":"2012-05-17T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27995"},"modified":"2012-05-17T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:11:42","slug":"the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27995","title":{"rendered":"The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Syttende Mai &#8211; the 107th anniversary of the day that Norway declared its independence after a bloody war of independence, throwing off the shackles of onerous, brutal Swedish rule.<\/p>\n<p>Norwegian forces had fought a long-shot, underground war against the evil Swedes &#8211; a battle which may have been the model for the &#8220;Rebellion&#8221; in the movie Star Wars &#8211; ragtag rebels fighting the Swedes and their Finnish and Danish mercenaries, eventually coalescing into a movement that was able to virtually wipe out the Swedes and drive to the very gates of Stockholm, dragging the Swedish monarchy to the negotiation table, leading to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;oh, I can&#8217;t go on. \u00a0It&#8217;s really just the date the Norwegian constitution was ratified. \u00a0Norwegians celebrate the event with childrens parades and the sort of stuff Americans do for, well, Arbor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; happy Syttende Mai!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Syttende Mai &#8211; the 107th anniversary of the day that Norway declared its independence after a bloody war of independence, throwing off the shackles of onerous, brutal Swedish rule. Norwegian forces had fought a long-shot, underground war against the evil Swedes &#8211; a battle which may have been the model for the &#8220;Rebellion&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-ate-for-oh-won","category-geekery","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27996,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995\/revisions\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}