{"id":659,"date":"2012-10-12T18:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T01:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2012-10-12T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T01:19:03","slug":"which-is-the-new-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/which-is-the-new-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Is The New Iceland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gimliairbase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-660\" title=\"gimliairbase\" src=\"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gimliairbase-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gimliairbase-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gimliairbase.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was growing up in Gimli, Manitoba, that is, the capital of New Iceland, Iceland was a distant and storied place. During the war years, 1939-45, Iceland was an important strategic location, a permanent battle ship and aircraft carrier in the North Sea. Travel there was restricted largely to the military, first the British and then the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, there were a few Icelanders who came to New Iceland. There were regarded as rather exotic creatures, sort of the way polar bears are when they drift onto land on ice floes.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people, including many of my relatives, spoke Icelandic. However, the tight, insular world of New Iceland, had started to break down. People who weren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up in Gimli, Manitoba, that is, the capital of New Iceland, Iceland was a distant and storied place. During the war years, 1939-45, Iceland was an important strategic location, a permanent battle ship and aircraft carrier in the North Sea. Travel there was restricted largely to the military, first the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[983,984,816,817,2121],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-base","tag-air-force","tag-gimli-2","tag-manitoba-2","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}