{"id":292,"date":"2003-09-12T21:48:33","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T00:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=292"},"modified":"2003-09-12T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T00:48:33","slug":"little-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Little mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>S<\/span>ome vandals knocked  the most famous <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3103906.stm\">mermaid  off  her perch<\/a>.  We&#8217;re naturally talking about Copenhagen&#8217;s 90 year old bronze Little Mermaid, the one that oversees the city&#8217;s harbour.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Mermaid has been subject to a couple of repeated vandalism: she has been beheaded, lost an arm and have been painted over many times. However this time the vandals used <em>explosives<\/em> to get her off her socket.\n<\/p>\n<p>A while back, I visited Copenhagen with a friend (after the Roskilde fest &#8217;96) and I remember checking out the Mermaid. If I recall correctly, my friend was able to jump up on the perch yelling at me to shoot a picture. Which I did. And many other tourists. I have no idea if it was allowed those days, to jump on that rock. I&#8217;m pretty sure it won&#8217;t be after this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some vandals knocked the most famous mermaid off her perch. We&#8217;re naturally talking about Copenhagen&#8217;s 90 year old bronze Little Mermaid, the one that oversees the city&#8217;s harbour. The Mermaid has been subject to a couple of repeated vandalism: she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}