{"id":931,"date":"2014-05-07T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2014-05-07T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T10:00:02","slug":"bevrijdingsdag-or-liberation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/bevrijdingsdag-or-liberation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bevrijdingsdag, or Liberation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bevrijdingsdag\u00a0(Liberation Day) is the day after Remembrance Day in the Netherlands. The Dutch celebrate Bevrijdingsdag\u00a0like the Americans celebrate the 4th of July (but with fewer fireworks\u00a0—\u00a0the Dutch are not\u00a0allowed to blow them up until New Year’s Eve).<\/p>\n

You can find picnics and barbecues all over the parks in town. The larger parks often have music festivals, complete with what you would expect at your typical outdoor festival\u00a0—\u00a0portable standing urinals (no equivalent\u00a0for the ladies, which leads to resentment), fried foods and expensive beer. The Park Transwijk in Utrecht holds one such festival. Over 38,000 people were there when I went.<\/p>\n

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In Park Transwijk, near the district of Kanaleneiland in Utrecht.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s also one of the rare moments you’ll see Dutch flags flying from people’s homes. As proud as the Dutch people are, they only show their national pride a few times a year — and only during public holidays like this.<\/p>\n

(Or just as important<\/em>: during football\u00a0matches.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bevrijdingsdag\u00a0(Liberation Day) is the day after Remembrance Day in the Netherlands. The Dutch celebrate Bevrijdingsdag\u00a0like the Americans celebrate the 4th of July (but with fewer fireworks\u00a0—\u00a0the Dutch are not\u00a0allowed to blow them up until New Year’s Eve). You can find picnics and barbecues all over the parks in town. The larger parks often have music … Continue reading “Bevrijdingsdag, or Liberation Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-f1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}