{"id":4232,"date":"2016-06-07T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:03:10","slug":"little-norway-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"Little Norway Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor Walker, Mayor Mark Jensen, &\u00a0myself with the Vikings & Valkyries in the parade.<\/p><\/div>\n

Norwegian Constitution Day or Syttende Mai<\/em> (17th<\/sup> of May) is celebrated annually in Petersburg during their multi-day Little Norway Festival. \u00a0I met with constituents and local officials including the visiting Norwegian Ambassador to the United States, K\u00e5re R. Aas, and the Royal Norwegian Honorary Consul for Alaska, Lise Falskow during the festival weekend.\u00a0 The Petersburg community, Mayor Mark Jensen, and myself welcomed the visiting dignitaries including Alaska Governor Bill Walker, State Senator Donny Olson and his family.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Kare R. Aas, Julia Evens, & myself at the\u00a0Sons of Norway Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

K\u00e5re<\/p>\n

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Mayor Mark Jensen, Mike Stedman, Bill\u00a0Stedman, and myself welcoming\u00a0Governor Walker at the Petersburg Airport.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sam Jensen\u00a0and myself at the festivities.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norwegian Constitution Day or Syttende Mai (17th of May) is celebrated annually in Petersburg during their multi-day Little Norway Festival. \u00a0I met with constituents and local officials including the visiting Norwegian Ambassador to the United States, K\u00e5re R. Aas, and the Royal Norwegian Honorary Consul for Alaska, Lise Falskow during the festival weekend.\u00a0 The Petersburg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}