{"id":21296,"date":"2012-09-09T14:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=21296"},"modified":"2017-07-02T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T09:32:24","slug":"the-little-mermaid-statue-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=21296","title":{"rendered":"The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mermaid-langelinie-cph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21304\" title=\"Den lille Havfrue - The little Mermaid - Copenhagen. Foto Lars Bj\u00f8rnsten Odense\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mermaid-langelinie-cph.jpg\" alt=\"Den lille Havfrue - The little Mermaid - Copenhagen. Foto Lars Bj\u00f8rnsten Odense\" width=\"588\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen and\u00a0in the background the <a href=\"http:\/\/kongehuset.dk\/slotte-og-kongeskibet\/kongeskibet-dannebrog\">Royal Yacht Dannebrog<\/a> in Copenhagen Harbor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen &#8211;\u00a0Den lille Havfrue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. The statue of the Little Mermaid sitting on a granite stone at Langelinie Pier in Copenhagen.\u00a0This small and unimposing statue is a symbol of Copenhagen, and is one of Denmark&#8217;s biggest tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was put up in 1913. &#8220;The Little mermaid&#8221; was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, who was a son of the founder of Carlsberg. The statue was made by sculptor Edvard Eriksen 1876-1959 and his wife Eline 1881 -1963 was model.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Mermaid statue was In 1909 a present from brewer Carl Jacobsen (The Carlsberg Breweries) to the city of Copenhagen. He presented her to the city of Copenhagen on August 23, 1913.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Mermaid (Den lille Havfrue) is a fairytale written in 1836 and first published in 1837 by the danish author Hans Christian Andersen (H.C.Andersen). The story is about a young mermaid who is willing to give up everything to gain an immortal soul and the love of a prince.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"The story of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d at Langelinie in Copenhagen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=21282\">The story of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d at Langelinie in Copenhagen<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Foto Lars Bj\u00f8rnsten Odense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen and\u00a0in the background the Royal Yacht Dannebrog in Copenhagen Harbor The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen &#8211;\u00a0Den lille Havfrue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. The statue of the Little Mermaid sitting on a granite stone at Langelinie Pier in Copenhagen.\u00a0This small and unimposing statue is a symbol of Copenhagen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/?page_id=21296\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20656,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87686,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21296\/revisions\/87686"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hcandersen-homepage.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}