{"id":38333,"date":"2004-07-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/07\/27\/norway-drunk-on-success-becomes-a-country-of-layabouts\/"},"modified":"2004-07-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T07:00:00","slug":"norway-drunk-on-success-becomes-a-country-of-layabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040727-00\/?p=38333","title":{"rendered":"Norway, drunk on success, becomes a country of layabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/06\/14\/155108.aspx\">  Norwegians have it so good<\/a>  that they&#8217;ve started getting lazy:  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>  Before the oil boom,  when Norway was mostly poor and largely isolated,  the country survived on its hard work and self-reliance,  two stalwart Scandinavian virtues.   <\/p>\n<p>  Now, with the country still bulging from three decades of oil money,  Norway is discovering that sudden wealth does not come without complications:  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2001988054_norway25.html\">  The country&#8217;s bedrock work ethic is caving in<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  On a similar note, here&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/article\/index.cfm\/i\/072604b_fellesferie\">  an essay on Norwegian &#8216;fellesferie&#8217;&mdash;vacation time<\/a>&mdash;and  its impact on getting anything done at all during the summer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegians have it so good that they&#8217;ve started getting lazy: Before the oil boom, when Norway was mostly poor and largely isolated, the country survived on its hard work and self-reliance, two stalwart Scandinavian virtues. Now, with the country still bulging from three decades of oil money, Norway is discovering that sudden wealth does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Norwegians have it so good that they&#8217;ve started getting lazy: Before the oil boom, when Norway was mostly poor and largely isolated, the country survived on its hard work and self-reliance, two stalwart Scandinavian virtues. Now, with the country still bulging from three decades of oil money, Norway is discovering that sudden wealth does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333","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=38333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38333\/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=38333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}