{"id":812630,"date":"2026-10-24T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812630\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:32:08","slug":"it-was-a-fun-idea-the-norwegian-island-that-wanted-to-abolish-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812630\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was a fun idea&#8217;: The Norwegian island that wanted to abolish time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Later, as I fall asleep at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sommaroy.no\/\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sommar\u00f8y Arctic Hotel<\/a>, the town is so quiet that it is difficult to tell the difference between the hours \u2013 there is no traffic, no general noise, regardless of the hour. Fully aware of the irony, I set my alarm for 03:30 to see if I can learn anything about the fluidity of time from venturing out at what, anywhere else, might be considered an ungodly hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later, as I fall asleep at the Sommar\u00f8y Arctic Hotel, the town is so quiet that it is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}