{"id":274,"date":"2003-10-14T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-14T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2003-10-14T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2003-10-14T16:22:31","slug":"swedish-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/10\/swedish-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"sg-marginalia-250\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chef.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stefangeens.com\/chef.jpg?resize=223%2C224\" width=\"223\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\"><\/span>I&#8217;ve been having far too much fun for the past half hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/YSSendPostcard_1____6495.asp\">listening to the Muppets&#8217; Swedish Chef<\/a> over and over again. It&#8217;s on a newly launched site by the Swedish Institute called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/YSFrontPage____6489.asp\">Young Swedes<\/a>, and it&#8217;s bizarrely addictive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\/templates\/Article____7005.asp\">Swedish chefs also feature<\/a> on the parent site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweden.se\">Sweden.se<\/a>, Sweden&#8217;s official &#8220;portal&#8221; on the web. This whole web presence is a huge branding exercise for Sweden, but the amount of information provided in the process is a bit staggering. If you have a term paper due tomorrow and haven&#8217;t started yet, you could do a lot worse than plagiarizing this site.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating how Swedes perceive themselves in the world, and then how they go about presenting themselves to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having far too much fun for the past half hour listening to the Muppets&#8217; Swedish Chef over and over again. It&#8217;s on a newly launched site by the Swedish Institute called Young Swedes, and it&#8217;s bizarrely addictive. Swedish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/10\/swedish-chef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-4q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}