{"id":3808,"date":"2025-06-20T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2025-06-21T18:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T17:31:55","slug":"midsummer-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"..\/comics\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a> It\u2019s that time again! Swedish Midsummer is upon us! If you\u2019ve ever been in Sweden this time of year, you know it\u2019s a big deal. Like, flower crowns, maypoles, singing songs about frogs while dancing in a big circle&#8230; I know &#8211; It&#8217;s kinda weird when you think about it too much.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s basically the unofficial start of summer so it\u2019s one of the most important holidays of the year for a lot of Swedes.<\/p>\n<p>Tradition says you should be out in the countryside, eating pickled herring, strawberries, and potatoes, with a cold drink in hand and the sun basically refusing to set. There\u2019s a kind of magic to it\u2014even if you\u2019re not into tradition, there are really good vibes.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I\u2019m keeping it simple this year. No maypole dancing for me. Just planning to relax, hang out with the fam, and maybe not look at a screen for once.<\/p>\n<p>So wherever you are in the world\u2014whether you&#8217;re clinking glasses out in the sunshine or just enjoying the good vibes\u2014 hope you get a little peace this weekend. And if you do the frog dance, I\u2019m personally making you an honorary Swede.<\/p>\n<p>Glad Midsommar, my dudes! \u2600\ufe0f\ud83c\udf53<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again! Swedish Midsummer is upon us! If you\u2019ve ever been in Sweden this time of year, you know it\u2019s a big deal. Like, flower crowns, maypoles, singing songs about frogs while dancing in a big circle&#8230; I know &#8211; It&#8217;s kinda weird when you think about it too much. It\u2019s basically the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingofslackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}