{"id":8209,"date":"2016-05-17T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T10:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:45:50","slug":"syttende-mai-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2016\/05\/17\/syttende-mai-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Syttende Mai in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Constitution Day in Sydney\" width=\"600\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1-768x332.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1-1024x442.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1-150x65.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai1-400x173.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Today, from 12:30pm, a large group of Norwegians and their friends and families gathered in Hyde Park, Sydney, to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day. A man who sat next to me on the garden bed wall told me that the numbers were really down this year. Usually they get between 800 and 1000. Today I would estimate there were several hundred.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Constitution Day in Sydney\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5-768x410.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5-1024x546.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5-150x80.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai5-400x213.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>I bet you didn&#8217;t know that Norwegian flags on sticks make excellent swords. This group of young boys were exercising their fencing skills. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Constitution Day in Sydney\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4-300x262.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4-768x671.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4-1024x894.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4-150x131.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai4-400x349.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>My first experience of kransekake (almond biscuits) fingers &#8211; it won&#8217;t be my last!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Constitution Day in Sydney\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai3-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>While not many were dressed in their folk costumes, some were, and it was delightful to see them so proudly wearing their bunads. Many featured beautiful embroidery on the shirts, waistcoats and skirts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2.jpg\" alt=\"Norwegian Constitution Day in Sydney\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SyttendeMai2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Many of the children were dressed in traditional clothes, and they looked wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see the actual parade, as I had to head home, but I enjoyed a little bit of Norwegian-ness in Sydney. It was a simply gorgeous day &#8211; perfect for a celebratory picnic in the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, from 12:30pm, a large group of Norwegians and their friends and families gathered in Hyde Park, Sydney, to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day. A man who sat next to me on the garden bed wall told me that the numbers were really down this year. Usually they get between 800 and 1000. Today I would [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29,31,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethnic-embroidery","category-historical-embroidery","category-travel","category-white-threads","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}