{"id":4555,"date":"2016-12-14T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2016-12-11T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T11:16:21","slug":"birthday-songs-and-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/birthday-songs-and-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Songs and Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past years of living in the Netherlands, I have been intrigued by the birthday traditions. These are slightly different than what I had lived in the U.S. and in Mexico, but are\u00a0<em>gezellig<\/em> none the less. Here are a few facts about celebrating your birthday in Dutch!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4768\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/9LvdCX\" aria-label=\"5754480727 4d76d93bf0 M\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4768\"  alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"240\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/12\/5754480727_4d76d93bf0_m.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birthday hat (photo by Droid Gingerbread found in Flickr.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Birthday songs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lang zal ze leven<br \/>\nLang zal ze leven<br \/>\nLang zal ze leven in de gloria<br \/>\nIn de glo-ri-a<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hieperdepiep\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hoera!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hieperdepiep\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hoera!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the most basic and popular birthday song in the Netherlands. It says &#8220;long shall you live in the gloria&#8221; and then you have a big hurray for your birthday! Very nice song and very easy to learn.<\/p>\n<p>There is another popular birthday song called &#8220;<em>Twee violen en een trommel en een fluit&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>meaning &#8220;two violins, a drum and a flute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Twee violen en een trommel en een fluit,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Want je bent nu jarig en de vlaggen hangen uit.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ei, ei, ei, en we zijn zo blij,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Want je bent nu jarig en dat vieren wij!<br \/>\nEi, ei<br \/>\nOh wat zijn wij heden blij<br \/>\nWant jij bent nu jarig, je bent nu jarig<br \/>\nOh wat zijn wij heden blij<br \/>\nWant jij bent nu jarig en dat vieren wij<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(You can replace &#8220;je&#8221; for the person&#8217;s name)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/uhe31nqYO3I<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Congratulating the family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you visit someone for their birthday, you are expected to congratulate them with a\u00a0<em>proficiat\u00a0<\/em> or\u00a0<em>gefeliciteerd<\/em> and three kisses. You are also expected to congratulate the family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birthday pie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Up until 2013, I have celebrated my birthday with cake. In Limburg, people celebrate their birthdays with a traditional\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/birthday-cake-or-birthday-pie\/\"><em>Limburgse Vlaai<\/em><\/a>. You are expected to take pie to your work and have it available for people that will visit you. If you need a recipe for a pie, make sure to check out this delicious\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/my-favorite-dutch-dessert-apple-pie\/\">appel vlaai recept<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I must admit that I do not know if this applies to the rest of the Netherlands or not. If any of you readers know, please share your birthday experience with the rest of us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"172\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/12\/5754480727_4d76d93bf0_m.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>In the past years of living in the Netherlands, I have been intrigued by the birthday traditions. These are slightly different than what I had lived in the U.S. and in Mexico, but are\u00a0gezellig none the less. Here are a few facts about celebrating your birthday in Dutch! Birthday songs Lang zal ze leven Lang&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/birthday-songs-and-pie\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":4768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713,3590,27711],"tags":[1939,445038,350228,10149],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-2","category-dutch-language","category-dutch-vocabulary-2","tag-birthday","tag-dutch-traditions","tag-limburg","tag-netherlands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}