Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, is just about two weeks older than me. The Swedish media report on her doings regularly. I can\u2019t say I follow them with much interest, but I\u2019ve enjoyed the occasional updates on her \u201cmilestones\u201d, because mine happened at about the same time. Victoria finishes high school. Victoria goes to university. Etc.<\/p>\n
Today Svenska Dagbladet reported on Victoria\u2019s name day celebrations<\/a>. (Name day is a European concept<\/a> and a reasonably popular thing in Sweden.) And I couldn\u2019t help thinking \u2013 she looks like a tant<\/em>, like an old lady. And she is my age! She may be a crown princess but at least I don\u2019t look like a tant<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, is just about two weeks older than me. The Swedish media report on her doings regularly. I can\u2019t say I follow them with much interest, but I\u2019ve enjoyed the occasional updates on her \u201cmilestones\u201d, because mine happened at about the same time. Victoria finishes high school. Victoria goes to university. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}