{"id":39363,"date":"2004-05-13T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/05\/13\/norway-pros-and-cons\/"},"modified":"2004-05-13T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T07:01:00","slug":"norway-pros-and-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040513-00\/?p=39363","title":{"rendered":"Norway: Pros and cons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article579769.ece\">  the United Nations&#8217; Development Program  has ranked Norway as having the best standard of living in the world<\/a>.  Norwegians beat out all others because of their high levels of  education, pay and life expectancy.\n  In a totally unrelated story:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article633160.ece\">  Norway world leader in casual sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Of course, Norway isn&#8217;t all candy canes and lollipops.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article353179.ece\">  You also have  to worry about cow attacks and cows falling from the sky<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  <b>Cows rampage in Norway<\/b>  <\/p>\n<p>  In a bizarre series of incidents, two   farmers in different parts of the country were hospitalized after  being attacked by cows. Elsewhere, four men narrowly missed having  their car crushed by a crash-landing cow.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, the United Nations&#8217; Development Program has ranked Norway as having the best standard of living in the world. Norwegians beat out all others because of their high levels of education, pay and life expectancy. In a totally unrelated story: Norway world leader in casual sex. Of course, Norway [&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-39363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For the third year in a row, the United Nations&#8217; Development Program has ranked Norway as having the best standard of living in the world. Norwegians beat out all others because of their high levels of education, pay and life expectancy. In a totally unrelated story: Norway world leader in casual sex. Of course, Norway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363","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=39363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363\/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=39363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}