{"id":38893,"date":"2004-06-14T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/14\/norway-works-to-lengthen-its-lead\/"},"modified":"2004-06-14T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T07:01:00","slug":"norway-works-to-lengthen-its-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040614-00\/?p=38893","title":{"rendered":"Norway works to lengthen its lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Norway locks its grip on &#8220;Best place to live&#8221; status:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3765071.stm\">  Norway bans smoking in bars and restaurants<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<li>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/front\/articles\/0407smirting.html\">  Smokers hanging around outside bars = new dating scene<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/05\/13\/131117.aspx\">  As I pointed out last month<\/a>,  this then leads to&#8230;  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article633160.ece\">  Norway is world leader in casual sex<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<li>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article579769.ece\">  Norway ranked as #1 best place to live<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Shoulda studied Norwegian  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/05\/12\/130455.aspx\">  like I had planned to do originally before I got sidetracked by Swedish<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway locks its grip on &#8220;Best place to live&#8221; status: Norway bans smoking in bars and restaurants. Smokers hanging around outside bars = new dating scene. As I pointed out last month, this then leads to&#8230; Norway is world leader in casual sex. Norway ranked as #1 best place to live. Shoulda studied Norwegian like [&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-38893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Norway locks its grip on &#8220;Best place to live&#8221; status: Norway bans smoking in bars and restaurants. Smokers hanging around outside bars = new dating scene. As I pointed out last month, this then leads to&#8230; Norway is world leader in casual sex. Norway ranked as #1 best place to live. Shoulda studied Norwegian like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893","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=38893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893\/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=38893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}