{"id":17495,"date":"2022-05-31T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:31:15","slug":"norway-constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2022\/05\/31\/norway-constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 17, Norway celebrates its Constitution Day. The day is filled with a festival and gatherings of everyone in traditional clothing. My friends and I had a picnic by a lake in Bergen, and then went to the city center. There were large crowds of Norwegians wearing their traditional clothing and enjoying the festivities. This day felt a lot like the U.S.&#8217;s Fourth of July in some ways and especially in the fact that Norway&#8217;s flag is also red, white and blue.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52120093216_e8a0773866_z.jpg\" alt=\"People sit on a grassy lawn around a gazebo under a blue sky with a mountain in the background.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bergen city center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52120341039_fe15ce29a9_z.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students pose outside holding Norwegian flags.\" width=\"520\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and my friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52120122768_c58e305824_z.jpg\" alt=\"Crowds gather around tents in an open area of the city center.\" width=\"296\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds of Norwegians gathered to hear traditional songs sung by a choir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"card\">\n<div class=\"card-body\" style=\"background: #D7D7D7\">Learn more about this blogger&#8217;s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&amp;Program_ID=10045\">University of Bergen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 17, Norway celebrates its Constitution Day. The day is filled with a festival and gatherings of everyone in traditional clothing. My friends and I had a picnic by a lake in Bergen, and then went to the city center. There were large crowds of Norwegians wearing their traditional clothing and enjoying the festivities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-17495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-norway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18499,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions\/18499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}