{"id":2093,"date":"2011-06-23T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2011-06-23T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:24:27","slug":"national-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/23\/national-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6364.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Flag\" width=\"55\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6364.jpg 276w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6364-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 55px) 100vw, 55px\" \/>It&#8217;s National Day in Luxembourg! (We posted three times about National Day 2009 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/national-day-is-almost-here\/\">one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/23\/its-all-the-finale-for-national-day\/\">two<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/luxembourgs-national-day\/\">three<\/a> &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/a-little-history-of-national-day\/\">once<\/a> in 2010.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is a good time to note that, for the first time since the 18th Century, the rules of succession for the throne of Luxembourg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wort.lu\/wort\/web\/en\/luxembourg\/articles\/2011\/06\/153564\/index.php\">have changed<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6368.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6368-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cremant\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6368-249x300.jpg 249w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6368.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a> Other than that, we suspect that this National Day will be much like the previous two. The champagne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-pages.com\/features\/luxembourg-wine.htm\">excuse<\/a> me, <a href=\"http:\/\/sycamorestirrings.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/little-difference-30.html\">cr\u00e9mant<\/a>) bottle in the bin at the bus stop is a sign that the Eve of National Day transpired as expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6356.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ducal Family\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6356.jpg 332w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_6356-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>Almost every business is closed, in observance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wort.lu\/wort\/web\/en\/luxembourg\/articles\/2011\/06\/153738\/index.php\">the holiday<\/a>. A local bank honored the Grand Ducal family in its revolving door.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Fun Fact: By coincidence, today is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/holidays\/germany\/corpus-christi\">a holiday<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holidays_in_Germany\">most<\/a> of Germany! The rest of Europe had to carry on by itself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s National Day in Luxembourg! (We posted three times about National Day 2009 &#8212; one, two, three &#8212; and once in 2010.) Perhaps this is a good time to note that, for the first time since the 18th Century, the rules of succession for the throne of Luxembourg have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,225,755,620],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}