{"id":5438,"date":"2009-10-31T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T01:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-the-little-mermaid-k%c3%98benhavn-denmark\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T01:33:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T01:33:32","slug":"cheap-hotel-near-the-little-mermaid-k%c3%98benhavn-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"The Little Mermaid&#8217;s effect on visitors ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the_little_mermaid-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9736\" title=\"the_little_mermaid\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/the_little_mermaid-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"the_little_mermaid\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A major tourist attraction, the statue of The Little Mermaid (<em>Den lille havfrue<\/em> in Danish) sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour. Tourists visiting for the first time the heroin of Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s fairy tale are <strong>surprised by <\/strong><strong>the relatively small size of the statue<\/strong>. The Little Mermaid is nevertheless a Copenhagen icon, commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen\u2019s Royal Theatre and asked the primaballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the statue, which was unveiled on <span title=\"1913-08-23\">23 August 1913<\/span>. As the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor\u2019s wife Eline Eriksen was used for the body.<\/p>\n<p>The statue will move to Shanghai for the duration of the Expo 2010 (from May to October).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major tourist attraction, the statue of The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue in Danish) sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour. Tourists visiting for the first time the heroin of Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s fairy tale are surprised by the relatively small size of the statue. The Little Mermaid is nevertheless a Copenhagen icon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[534,535],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}