{"id":4144,"date":"2009-05-17T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2009-08-10T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T20:49:06","slug":"syttende-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"<i>Syttende Mai<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 104th anniversary of the <em>Norske Revolusjon &#8211; <\/em>when Norwegian patriots rebelled, casting off the brutal, authoritarian hand of the Swedish monarchy in an epic cataclysm that ended with a titanic battle in the hills outside Oslo, ending in a crushing Norwegian victory that sent the demoraized Swedes into a panicked retreat in the short term, and a social tailspin in the long run.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.topnews.in\/files\/Norway-Flag.jpg\" width=\"514\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the battle, and when the treaty was signed that granted Norway its hard=earned independence, General Olaf Haraldsson proclaimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Med allmektige Gud som vitne i dag, jeg sverger f\u00f8r du at fra i dag fram til slutten av tid og norsk skal noensinne baugen ned f\u00f8r en svenske. Det er bare galt<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Words we cal all live by?\u00a0 I think we can all agree on this.<\/p>\n<p>So happy birthday, Norway!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> OK, OK &#8211; other than the dates and the flag picture, nothing in the story above is real.\u00a0 <em>Syttende Mai<\/em> is really the anniversary of the 1814 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_Constitution_Day\">adoption of the Norwegian Constitution<\/a>, which didn&#8217;t really make the country independent.<\/p>\n<p>And there <em>was\u00a0 <\/em>no Norwegian revolution; indeed, <em>Syttende <\/em>is an exceedingly non-martial holiday.<br \/>\nBut we <em>could <\/em>have kicked Sweden&#8217;s butt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 104th anniversary of the Norske Revolusjon &#8211; when Norwegian patriots rebelled, casting off the brutal, authoritarian hand of the Swedish monarchy in an epic cataclysm that ended with a titanic battle in the hills outside Oslo, ending in a crushing Norwegian victory that sent the demoraized Swedes into a panicked retreat 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":[25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10939,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}