{"id":329,"date":"2003-10-07T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=329"},"modified":"2003-10-07T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T12:29:02","slug":"oktoberfests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfests"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> noticed something when I was mindlessly browsing around. I ran into Oktoberfests, fests that are apparantly celebrated everwhere in this part of the world and are originally part of German heritance.<\/p>\n

Over in the New World, it’s natural to remember or celebrate your heritance. First, I thought it was irritating. Why celebrate your Irish-ness, German-ness, if your ancestors have already died hundreds of years ago? I generally thought it was obnoxious to think about your beloved country. Life goes on. Get with it or lose it.\n<\/p>\n

Lately I’ve started to become aware, I’m actually doing the same thing. I’m stuck in Dutch behaviour and typical Dutch culture. I remember old things, social patterns, apparantly engraved in my brains by teachers, parents and siblings. Those small things that lead to asking questions why things are so different in each single little culture. Eventually they get to you and you know it when you find yourself staring into absolute darkness looking for a little light. A little single light.\n<\/p>\n

Millions of people have come to the New World before me. Just like they struggled, I struggle too. Apparantly there’s nothing wrong with celebrating one’s origin, inheritance or culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed something when I was mindlessly browsing around. I ran into Oktoberfests, fests that are apparantly celebrated everwhere in this part of the world and are originally part of German heritance. Over in the New World, it’s natural to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}