{"id":4125,"date":"2011-09-09T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2011-09-09T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T16:03:44","slug":"whats-wrong-with-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/whats-wrong-with-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with Stockholm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/09\/08\/newnam.stockholm.trip\/index.html\">article <\/a>from the CNN.com travel column &#8220;The State I&#8217;m In&#8221; by Brendan Francis Newnam. It&#8217;s about Stockholm\u00a0and thought I&#8217;d share it with you. It&#8217;s spot on in so many ways, and \u00a0fun\u00a0and useful as well.<\/p>\n<p>A snippet:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;In fact, Stockholm is so attractive and so user-friendly that your feelings about it will toggle between admiration and jealousy. It&#8217;s like the neighbor with the groomed yard, the successful career and the loving family. Part of you aspires to be her. Another part wants to start negative rumors about her and tear up her yard by doing donuts on it in your unwashed Toyota Camry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s really expensive over there,&#8221; you think. &#8220;At least they have that going against them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And it&#8217;s true it ain&#8217;t cheap, but it&#8217;s kind of like dining at a baseball stadium: If you avoid boozing and be smart about where you eat, the prices won&#8217;t make you cry.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, Swedenlovers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across this article from the CNN.com travel column &#8220;The State I&#8217;m In&#8221; by Brendan Francis Newnam. It&#8217;s about Stockholm\u00a0and thought I&#8217;d share it with you. It&#8217;s spot on in so many ways, and \u00a0fun\u00a0and useful as well. 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