{"id":6634,"date":"2012-09-02T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T11:23:39","slug":"the-swedish-chef-is-norwegian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-swedish-chef-is-norwegian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedish Chef&#8230; is Norwegian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat has always struck me is that the Chef is probably based on a\u00a0<em>Norwegian<\/em>sing-songish accent rather than a Swedish one,\u201d Maaret Koskinen, a film studies professor at Stockholm University, wrote in an email when I asked her about the Swedish Chef\u2019s cultural influence in Sweden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2012\/08\/swedish_chef_what_do_swedes_think_of_him_they_think_he_sounds_norwegian_.single.html\">Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat has always struck me is that the Chef is probably based on a\u00a0Norwegiansing-songish accent rather than a Swedish one,\u201d Maaret Koskinen, a film studies professor at Stockholm University, wrote in an email when I asked her about the Swedish Chef\u2019s cultural influence in Sweden. Slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[447,3799,3798,3797],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-muppets","tag-norwegian","tag-swedihs-chef","tag-truth","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1J0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}