{"id":658,"date":"2010-06-23T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=658"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:40:28","slug":"het-wilhelmus-the-dutch-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/het-wilhelmus-the-dutch-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Het Wilhelmus: The Dutch National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I covered a little bit about immigration in my <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/immigration-to-the-netherlands\/\">last  post<\/a>, now might be a good time to introduce you to the Dutch National  Anthem: Het Wilhelmus.\u00a0 You aren&#8217;t required to know it for any official  purpose, but it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to be able to sing along during the World  Cup this summer.<\/p>\n<p>I would be completely remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention  that it is the oldest national anthem in the world, which the Dutch are  particularly proud of.\u00a0 I would also be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention that  it contains a whopping fifteen stanzas.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re really  only required to remember the first and sixth stanzas.<\/p>\n<p>The  following video of the national anthem shows the lyrics to the song as  it plays.\u00a0 If you are really interested in the complete version of the  lyrics, you should have a look at the Wikipedia page (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Het_Wilhelmus#Lyrics\">direct link to the Wikipedia lyrics chart<\/a>), where there is a  fantastic chart with the original Dutch lyrics, the contemporary Dutch  lyrics, the English lyrics meant to fit the melody, and the English  translation of the original Dutch version.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the most informative  chart I&#8217;ve been able to find for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Het Wilhelmus - National Anthem of The Netherlands\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIg9VaMBi9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I covered a little bit about immigration in my last post, now might be a good time to introduce you to the Dutch National Anthem: Het Wilhelmus.\u00a0 You aren&#8217;t required to know it for any official purpose, but it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to be able to sing along during the World Cup this summer. I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/het-wilhelmus-the-dutch-national-anthem\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3590],"tags":[3,8887,108,2327],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-dutch-language","tag-culture","tag-het-wilhelmus","tag-music","tag-national-anthem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}