{"id":6002,"date":"2012-10-17T18:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2014-06-26T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T22:13:21","slug":"popular-swedish-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/popular-swedish-souvenirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Swedish Souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to Sweden soon? What are your expectations? A shopping spree or a walk in the woods? Checking out different pizzeria\u2019s pizza salad? For those of you who have read this blog for a while now probably know more about Sweden than most.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What would you then bring back from Sweden, either out of symbolic value or for maybe purely practical reasons? A famous Swedish invention? <strong>Osthyveln.\u00a0<\/strong>(like the cheese slicer?) A Barba Pappa mug or a mug with Astrid Lindgren\u2019s fictional characters on it? Would you maybe bring home a t-shirt with the warning sign with an elk on it? <strong>Varning \u00c4lg!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You probably recognize the most common ones like <strong>Dalah\u00e4starna<\/strong> (the Dala Horses, carved and painted figures). Or the t-shirts saying \u201cI love Stockholm\u201d (<strong>Jag \u00e4lskar Stockholm)<\/strong>. Bring home a <strong>midsommarst\u00e5ng <\/strong>(midsummer pole) and tell all the people who ask what it is that it actually symbolizes fertility. Suppose most of you can guess the rest \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few tips, but what have\/would\u00a0<em>you <\/em>bring home? Are there things that you have brought home from Sweden and given to others that have been very appreciated?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"315\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/10\/Midsommar_Midsommarstang-315x350.jpeg\" 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\/2012\/10\/Midsommar_Midsommarstang-315x350.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2012\/10\/Midsommar_Midsommarstang.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><p>Going to Sweden soon? What are your expectations? A shopping spree or a walk in the woods? Checking out different pizzeria\u2019s pizza salad? For those of you who have read this blog for a while now probably know more about Sweden than most. What would you then bring back from Sweden, either out of symbolic&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/popular-swedish-souvenirs\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[236336,236335],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-dalahastar","tag-swedish-souvenirs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","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=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}