{"id":479,"date":"2004-01-26T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T00:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=479"},"modified":"2004-01-26T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T00:25:07","slug":"i-so-quite-agree-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"I <em>so<\/em> quite agree, yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs has come under fire when they introduced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communicatie-online.nl\/Nieuws\/index.html#Item30169\">new slogan for a campaign to raise awareness for the European Union<\/a> (warning: Dutch language-link).\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>Europa. Best Belangrijk.\n<\/p>\n<p>Which translates into English as &#8216;Europe. Pretty important&#8217;. Or &#8216;Quite important&#8217;. Or as in &#8216;Europe: we should do something about it, but it can wait&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>The slogan has plenty of advertisers laughing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planet.nl\/planet\/show\/id=62967\/contentid=439326\/sc=9cb7ee\">The Dutch parliament<\/a> (Dutch once again) thinks those millions could have been spent on better things. Or watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3430573.stm\">&#8216;quite not so serious&#8217;<\/a> reminder over at the BBC. What the British news agency thinks of the (additional) Dutch logo that goes with the slogan?\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8216;Quite nice&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs has come under fire when they introduced their new slogan for a campaign to raise awareness for the European Union (warning: Dutch language-link). Europa. Best Belangrijk. Which translates into English as &#8216;Europe. Pretty important&#8217;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}