{"id":10940,"date":"2010-05-17T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:30:55","slug":"lykkelig-syttende-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10940","title":{"rendered":"Lykkelig Syttende Mai!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the 106th anniversary of the Norske Revolusjon – <\/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

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\nAfter the battle, and when the treaty was signed that granted Norway its hard-earned independence, General Olaf Haraldsson proclaimed:<\/p>\n

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

Words we cal all live by?\u00a0 I think we can all agree on this.<\/p>\n

So happy birthday, Norway!<\/p>\n

Of course,\u00a0other than the dates and the flag picture, nothing in the story above is real.\u00a0 Syttende Mai<\/em> is really the anniversary of the 1814 adoption of the Norwegian Constitution<\/a>, which didn’t really make the country independent.<\/p>\n

And there was\u00a0 <\/em>no Norwegian revolution; indeed, Syttende <\/em>is an exceedingly non-martial holiday, focusing mostly around kids’ parades.\u00a0 Not even any fireworks.<\/p>\n

But we could <\/em>have kicked Sweden’s butt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Today is the 106th anniversary of the Norske Revolusjon – 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}