{"id":1594,"date":"2008-09-12T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2010-05-24T22:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:41:14","slug":"an-expat-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1594","title":{"rendered":"An Expat Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/2849816001\/\" title=\"Expat Meme v2.0 by Breigh.com, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3012\/2849816001_aa703246a4.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Expat Meme v2.0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wenjo13\/1359848785\/\">HDR Kinderdijk<\/a>, 2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/decarrion\/2103877354\/\">Winterdish-Boerenkoolstampot<\/a>, 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breun\/204173109\/\">Hel\u00e1\u00e1s<\/a>, 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10196795@N03\/2230913013\/\">Famke Janssen<\/a>, 5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roboppy\/103671094\/\">Stroopwafel innards<\/a>, 6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64465682@N00\/335371626\/\">Marco Borsato Nachtmis<\/a>, 7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/krobbie\/2083411409\/\">Oliebollen in Rotterdam continued<\/a>, 8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chmurka\/2144691682\/\">&quot;I, Pi\u00f3rko, like Cheese!&quot;<\/a>, 9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dyrkwyst\/2444550755\/\">hard rain<\/a>, 10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heather19\/216979471\/\">i can make stroopwafels<\/a>, 11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photochiel\/2043747282\/\">St. Nicolas has arrived&#8230;<\/a>, 12. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8418721@N03\/1589733022\/\">Autumn Colors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok I\u2019ve seen these mosiac meme\u2019s around but the gal over at <a href=\"http:\/\/atouchofdutch.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Touch of Dutch<\/a> turned it into an expat in NL type meme, so I figure I\u2019ll give it a go too.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you do:<\/p>\n<p>a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/\">Flickr Search<\/a>.     <br \/>b. Using only the first page of results, pick an image.     <br \/>c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into <a href=\"http:\/\/bighugelabs.com\/flickr\/mosaic.php\">fd\u2019s mosaic maker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>12 Dutch things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A favorite Dutch landmark: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinderdijk.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kinderdijk<\/a>. Check out my pics from Kinderdijk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157600090768254\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157600159040952\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>A favorite Dutch food: <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erwtensoep\">Stampot<\/a><em> <\/em>Boerenkool! <\/li>\n<li>A favorite Dutch phrase: &quot;<em>Helaas pindakaas!<\/em>&quot; [Translation: &quot;Too Bad!&quot; or \u201cUnfortunately!\u201d] <\/li>\n<li>A favorite Dutch celebrity: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000463\/\">Famke Janssen<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>A favorite Dutch candy or cookie: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stroopwafel\">Stroopwafel<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>A favorite Dutch musician: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/802\">Marco Borsato<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>One favorite thing seen on the Dutch roadside: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/585\">Hollandse Gebakkraam<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>When you think of all things Dutch, this is one thought which first comes to mind: KAAS! [Cheese] <\/li>\n<li>One least favorite thing about the Netherlands: REGEN!! [rain]. <\/li>\n<li>Something Dutch you send home to family &amp; friends: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stroopwafel\">Stroopwafel<\/a> (again! haha). <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Dutch holiday [whether you celebrate it or not]: Sinterklaas! (We don\u2019t celebrate it but it\u2019s Christmasy so I love it) <\/li>\n<li>Favorite season of the year in the Netherlands: Herfst [Autumn\/Fall] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just realized a lot of my favorites have to do with food.&#160; It may have something to do with the fact that I\u2019ve been up for hours and haven\u2019t had breakfast yet.&#160; Maybe I should do it again when I am less hungry and see if any of my answers change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. HDR Kinderdijk, 2. Winterdish-Boerenkoolstampot, 3. Hel\u00e1\u00e1s, 4. Famke Janssen, 5. Stroopwafel innards, 6. Marco Borsato Nachtmis, 7. Oliebollen in Rotterdam continued, 8. &quot;I, Pi\u00f3rko, like Cheese!&quot;, 9. hard rain, 10. i can make stroopwafels, 11. St. Nicolas has arrived&#8230;, 12. Autumn Colors Ok I\u2019ve seen these mosiac meme\u2019s around but the gal over at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54,87,33,3],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-dutch","tag-food","tag-netherlands","tag-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}