{"id":6239,"date":"2016-11-29T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2016-11-29T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T04:55:47","slug":"gavle-goat-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2016\/gavle-goat-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e4vle Goat Burns Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e4vle&#8217;s famous Christmas goat just celebrated it&#8217;s 50th anniversary. \u00a0Sadly, overnight, it was burned down by arsonists\u00a0over night. \u00a0Watch the reaction of a Swedish news program as they report the breaking news (in Swedish! Time to practice your Swedish!)<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time either! Of the 50 years the G\u00e4vle goat has been built, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2016\/11\/30\/giant-christmas-goat-burned-down-sweden\" target=\"_blank\">burned down 35 times<\/a>. \u00a0It seems arsonists just can&#8217;t help to set fire to a giant goat made of straw.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the fun festival that G\u00e4vle had in order to celebrate the Christmas goat.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9tT_OthgeU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are discussing the option of building the goat again, at least until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/holiday\/lucia\/\">Lucia<\/a>. There are costs involved in that though, and there are always risks that the arsonists will try to burn the goat down again.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Should G\u00e4vle build the goat or let it rest in peace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e4vle&#8217;s famous Christmas goat just celebrated it&#8217;s 50th anniversary. \u00a0Sadly, overnight, it was burned down by arsonists\u00a0over night. \u00a0Watch the reaction of a Swedish news program as they report the breaking news (in Swedish! Time to practice your Swedish!) This isn&#8217;t the first time either! Of the 50 years the G\u00e4vle goat has been built, &#8230; <a title=\"G\u00e4vle Goat Burns Again\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2016\/gavle-goat-burns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about G\u00e4vle Goat Burns Again\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,386],"tags":[31,486,487],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}