{"id":1402,"date":"2025-03-25T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:00:23","slug":"semla-the-swedish-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/2025\/03\/25\/semla-the-swedish-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Semla: The Swedish treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1583\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Semla-46x60.jpg 46w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1583px) 100vw, 1583px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our native Swedish teacher told us about one of their sweet treats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Semla is something we eat in Sweden before Lent. It is a sweet bun filled with an almond paste with a lot of whipped cream. This rich, extravagant treat is meant to be the feast before fasting (though most of us who eat these don\u00b4t continue with the fasting part\u2026.). So, the Swedish celebrate Lent with a Hungarian-looking pastry (k\u00e9pvisel\u0151 f\u00e1nk) with a German name \u2013 a nice symbol for how intertwined we are with other countries.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our native Swedish teacher told us about one of their sweet treats: &#8220;Semla is something we eat in Sweden before Lent. It is a sweet bun filled with an almond paste with a lot of whipped cream. This rich, extravagant treat is meant to be the feast before fasting (though most of us who eat &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-facts","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishcoursesonline.se\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}