{"id":1591,"date":"2010-08-02T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2014-06-26T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:16:05","slug":"skin-cancer-not-a-problem-for-swedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/skin-cancer-not-a-problem-for-swedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin cancer &#8211; not a problem for Swedes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something foreigners might notice while in Sweden, Swedes\u2019 carefreeness of the amount of sun they get. It is as common that sunscreen is used as not. Are Swedes not afraid of getting skin cancer? Why don\u2019t they cover themselves up like the rest of the world so responsibly does?<\/p>\n<p>Well the truth is, either skin cancer isn\u2019t a big enough problem in Sweden to hear about it, and the people who got it don\u2019t talk about it, or people don\u2019t get it here. Could that be because the sun is different? When people come from Australia for example they wear Rashies or other protective clothing making sure not to get burns from the sun. Here people walk around half naked most of the summer, never dreaming of losing the chance to advance their tan.<\/p>\n<p>Smart? Maybe&#8230; maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"233\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/07\/Hans_Svensson_73889_RGB_72DPI-233x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/07\/Hans_Svensson_73889_RGB_72DPI-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/07\/Hans_Svensson_73889_RGB_72DPI-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/07\/Hans_Svensson_73889_RGB_72DPI.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p>Something foreigners might notice while in Sweden, Swedes\u2019 carefreeness of the amount of sun they get. It is as common that sunscreen is used as not. Are Swedes not afraid of getting skin cancer? Why don\u2019t they cover themselves up like the rest of the world so responsibly does? Well the truth is, either skin&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/skin-cancer-not-a-problem-for-swedes\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}