{"id":19005,"date":"2024-06-06T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19005"},"modified":"2024-06-28T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T21:55:02","slug":"daily_3391_-_swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/daily_3391_-_swedish\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3391 &#8211; Swedish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3391_flag.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nToday is Sweden&#8217;s national day.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year I got my Swedish citizenship. I still have my Estonian one, and I guess as long as I don&#8217;t make any noise about having two, I can keep both.<\/p>\n<p>If you asked me about my nationality, my answer would depend on the situation. Travelling abroad with the family? I&#8217;m Swedish. At work, among lots of other people who are Swedish to some extent but originally from elsewhere? I&#8217;m Estonian. In my everyday life, I really don&#8217;t care much.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I wanted this was to be able to vote in the Swedish national elections. I live here, and I&#8217;m affected by the political situation, so I want to affect it in turn. Especially the way it has been going recently, with the Sweden Democrats gaining influence. After the elections in 2018 I felt I needed to do my part. It somehow took the migration agency five and a half years to make a decision in my case, instead of the normal two or three, so I didn&#8217;t get to vote in the 2022 elections, either, but now I&#8217;m all set for the next time.<\/p>\n<p>(The flag in the photo belongs to our neighbours &#8211; they have a flagpole in the yard.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Sweden&#8217;s national day. Earlier this year I got my Swedish citizenship. I still have my Estonian one, and I guess as long as I don&#8217;t make any noise about having two, I can keep both. If you asked me about my nationality, my answer would depend on the situation. Travelling abroad with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}