{"id":87,"date":"2005-05-01T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/2005\/05\/01\/veterans-halifax\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T19:02:46","slug":"veterans-halifax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Halifax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e (wife and <a href='.\/wp-content\/veteranshospital.jpg'><img style='float:right;margin:3px;' src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-veteranshospital.jpg' alt='Veterans\\&#39; hospital' \/><\/a>me) managed to get to the Veterans&#8217; hospital in Halifax in time, despite of the poor weather conditions: it was pouring rain and visibility was pretty poor.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, The Honourary Consul (Peter McCreath) introduced the chairman of a Dutch association of immigrants, a man who survived the war and eventually decided to move to Canada.  There was a speech from a diplomat of the Consulate of Montreal, however, I didn&#8217;t recognize him. His acccent was pretty heavy though, and his (improvised?) speech was a mix of English, Dutch and French words. Oh: there was the singing of three national anthems (note: I only remember the first verse of the Dutch national anthem).\n<\/p>\n<p>After the official ceremony, I had a brief chat with the Honourary Consul about the last encounters (re: my emergency passport, last year), we exchanged commentary on the latest political spats regarding the celebrations and his touring around in Nova Scotia the next coming days. I found out that the Consul had a good beer taste too: he remembered my place of birth and noted that the great Grolsch beer is brewed in that city.\n<\/p>\n<p>There was a brief conversation with a just-immigrated Dutch couple too, who I (naturally) wished good luck with their recently acquired Permanent Resident status and new life on the American continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We (wife and me) managed to get to the Veterans&#8217; hospital in Halifax in time, despite of the poor weather conditions: it was pouring rain and visibility was pretty poor. Upon arrival, The Honourary Consul (Peter McCreath) introduced the chairman &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=87\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}