{"id":5527,"date":"2009-10-09T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2009-10-09T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T17:43:35","slug":"skol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5527","title":{"rendered":"<i>Sk\u00e5l<\/i>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leif_Erikson_Day\">Leif Erikson Day<\/a>, an actual national holiday named after the <em>real <\/em>first European to reach North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/NorwegianFlag-thumb-500x303.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The date has nothing to do with Erikson&#8217;s birthday or the date he discovered Vinland &#8211; both of which are lost to history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>October 9 is, however, according to the Wikipedia article on the subject&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;because the ship <em>Restauration<\/em> coming from Stavanger, Norway [from whence my mother&#8217;s maternal grandfather came about seventy years later], arrived in New York Harbor on October 9, 1825 at the start of the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Leif Erikson Day, an actual national holiday named after the real first European to reach North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus. \u00a0 The date has nothing to do with Erikson&#8217;s birthday or the date he discovered Vinland &#8211; both of which are lost to history.\u00a0 October 9 is, however, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","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=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}