{"id":37893,"date":"2004-09-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/09\/10\/storsjodjur-hunting-season-will-opening-soon\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T07:00:00","slug":"storsjodjur-hunting-season-will-opening-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040910-00\/?p=37893","title":{"rendered":"Storsj\u00f6odjur hunting season will opening soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland doesn’t have the corner on monsters in lakes. You’ll also find them in Norway<\/a>, in Sweden<\/a> (read about a recent expedition<\/a>), and in Canada<\/a>, among many, many others. Anywhere there are lakes, there’s bound to be a legend about a monster in one of them.<\/p>\n

It appears, however that Sweden’s Storsjöodjur is about to lose its protected species status<\/a>, owing to an inquiry inspired by a man’s request to harvest the creature’s eggs so he can hatch them<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As a result, it will soon be open season on Storsjöodjuret. Happy hunting. <\/p>\n

(I find the Swedish word odjur<\/cite> somewhat poetic. It translates as “monster” but literally means “un-animal”.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scotland doesn’t have the corner on monsters in lakes. You’ll also find them in Norway, in Sweden (read about a recent expedition), and in Canada, among many, many others. Anywhere there are lakes, there’s bound to be a legend about a monster in one of them. It appears, however that Sweden’s Storsjöodjur is about to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Scotland doesn’t have the corner on monsters in lakes. You’ll also find them in Norway, in Sweden (read about a recent expedition), and in Canada, among many, many others. Anywhere there are lakes, there’s bound to be a legend about a monster in one of them. It appears, however that Sweden’s Storsjöodjur is about to […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}