{"id":767,"date":"2008-01-07T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/767"},"modified":"2008-07-25T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T20:40:11","slug":"oranje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/767","title":{"rendered":"Oranje!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Oranje\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/2166762484\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2095\/2166762484_0d71d1ef69.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oranje\" width=\"450\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day while I was in the city center, I took some photos of the skaters at the man made ice skating rink by the city hall.\u00a0\u00a0 One thing that caught my attention was the orange rental skates everyone was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to the Netherlands, especially on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koninginnedag\" target=\"_blank\">Koninginnedag<\/a>, you may have wondered why the Dutch clad themselves in orange, rather than the colors of the Dutch flag, which is white, blue and red.<\/p>\n<p>Orange is the color of the royal family here in the Netherlands, the house of Oranje-Nassau, which dates back to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_I_of_Orange\" target=\"_blank\">Willem van Oranje<\/a> (William of Orange).\u00a0\u00a0 The Dutch have taken on the color orange as a sign of their national pride and for them orange is like the Canadian maple leaf or the stars and stripes of the USA.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIFA_World_Cup\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> so I can decorate our balconies with all the orange like everyone else!\u00a0\u00a0 I may even watch the games!<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0a75be3f-8b89-4359-9ac6-cbcb692c8fac\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Dutch\">Dutch<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Netherlands\">Netherlands<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Orange\">Orange<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Oranje\">Oranje<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Nederland\">Nederland<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day while I was in the city center, I took some photos of the skaters at the man made ice skating rink by the city hall.\u00a0\u00a0 One thing that caught my attention was the orange rental skates everyone was wearing. If you&#8217;ve ever been to the Netherlands, especially on Koninginnedag, you may have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}