{"id":1540,"date":"2025-08-31T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:08:58","slug":"elections-oil-fund-bulldozers-and-the-wrong-kind-of-sand-the-week-in-norwegian-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Elections, oil fund, bulldozers and the wrong kind of sand\u00a0\u2013 the week in Norwegian news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Norway’s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo’s trams have come to a shuddering halt due to… the wrong kind of sand. And the oil fund has pulled out of US machine giant Caterpillar over its involvement in Gaza and the West Bank. I dive into the news in Norway on Monocle on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway’s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo’s trams have come to a shuddering halt due to… the wrong kind of sand. And the oil fund has pulled out of US machine giant Caterpillar over its involvement in Gaza and the West Bank. I dive into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-300x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg","large":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"lbevanger","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a1b852b578e961002e57a208208d8c3f156202c1f46a1579da7c22a249e9fba?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Norway’s parliamentary elections are drawing close, and so is the race between the main contenders. Meanwhile, Oslo’s trams have come to a shuddering halt due to… the wrong kind of sand. And the oil fund has pulled out of US machine giant Caterpillar over its involvement in Gaza and the West Bank. I dive into […]","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Uncategorized"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":48,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg",600,600,false],"medium":["https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"lbevanger","author_link":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6a1b852b578e961002e57a208208d8c3f156202c1f46a1579da7c22a249e9fba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","videoUrl":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Monocle-on-Sunday-16-03-25-mp3-image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}