{"id":778,"date":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","slug":"national-day-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/national-day-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day is almost here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday is Luxembourg&#8217;s National Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Duke%27s_Official_Birthday\">the official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg<\/a>, and a very important holiday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdl.lu\/Loisirs_et_sports-p-641224\/Foires_et_march%C3%A9s-p-1445942\/F%C3%AAte_Nationale___Programme-p-7305\/Veille_de_la_f%C3%AAte_nationale___22_6_09.html\">official program in French<\/a>). We arrived just in time! This past Friday, I strolled around the city center and saw some of the preparations. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1ruegrand.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Rue before National Day\" title=\"Grand Rue before National Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1ruegrand.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1ruegrand-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>The Grand Rue is a celebrated retail street in the old city, and it was bedecked in Luxembourg&#8217;s flag. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2placeguillaume.jpg\" alt=\"Place Guillaume before National Day\" title=\"Place Guillaume before National Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-781\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2placeguillaume.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2placeguillaume-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gouvernement.lu\/dossiers\/famille_grand_ducale\/chregneuk\/annexeact\/place_guillaume\/\">Place Guillaume<\/a>, one of the major squares of the city, workers assembled a stage for the music festival that started this weekend. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2flagplconstitution.jpg\" alt=\"Flag at Place de la Constitution\" title=\"Flag at Place de la Constitution\" width=\"180\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-779\" \/>It&#8217;s been a cool weekend, so we didn&#8217;t attend the first performers. We&#8217;re looking forward to hearing some great music on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also eager to see the traditional festivities. Apparently, it includes a torchlit parade for the Grand Duke. When I think of rowdy crowds with torches, it&#8217;s typically not a happy occasion. So I&#8217;d like to see what torch-bearing subjects do when they <em>like<\/em> their ruler.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a massive fireworks display. I&#8217;m sure we would be able to see much of it from our delightful balcony. We plan, however, to join the mob. You can be sure that we&#8217;ll report on the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday is Luxembourg&#8217;s National Day, the official birthday of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and a very important holiday (official program in French). We arrived just in time! This past Friday, I strolled around the city center and saw some of the preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,6,620],"tags":[660,138,659,661,244,656,658,657,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}