{"id":1597,"date":"2011-10-13T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:16:34","slug":"meneer-kaktus-do-you-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/meneer-kaktus-do-you-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Meneer Kaktus:  Do you get it??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, and my family moved from the Netherlands to the US, my Dutch grandmother often sent me VHS tapes of my favorite Dutch television shows so that I could watch them in New York. \u00a0Those of you who were children in the Netherlands between 1986 and 1993 will remember Meneer Kaktus, a kid&#8217;s show which is some strange crossbreed of sketch comedy, burlesque act, and talk show&#8211;marketed to seven-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Until today, I had strong but unverified memories of the show. \u00a0Now that I&#8217;ve used YouTube to walk down a full 23 minutes of memory lane, I can verify those memories: \u00a0Meneer Kaktus was all about butt jokes, mooning the audience, and wearing makeup.<\/p>\n<p>It may be fun for a new Dutch speaker or Dutch student to watch part or all of this episode&#8230;the characters speak really fast, and there are some obscure plot points and less-than-obscured butts (in case you are watching with children who are not Dutch and not accustomed to adult nudity in their regularly scheduled programming).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uwHHytBHE_o&#038;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uwHHytBHE_o&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"299\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2011\/10\/kaktus.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>When I was younger, and my family moved from the Netherlands to the US, my Dutch grandmother often sent me VHS tapes of my favorite Dutch television shows so that I could watch them in New York. \u00a0Those of you who were children in the Netherlands between 1986 and 1993 will remember Meneer Kaktus, a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/meneer-kaktus-do-you-get-it\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713],"tags":[2005,112716,113207,112839],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-2","tag-children","tag-dutch-television","tag-meneer-kaktus","tag-the-1980s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}