{"id":7577,"date":"2022-01-14T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T11:17:25","slug":"our-5-best-posts-on-the-dutch-blog-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/our-5-best-posts-on-the-dutch-blog-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 5 Best Posts On The Dutch Blog In 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s almost the third weekend of 2022. Perhaps now is the perfect time to look back at some of our best posts on the blog in 2021. Perhaps you missed some of these? Or maybe you’d just like to read them again! Well, now is the time to check them out! Below, you can find our most read posts of the year, starting from number 5, going all the way to the most read post at number 1. Here we go!<\/p>\n

Number 5: Why Did the Dutch Government Suddenly Decide to Leave?<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Kabinet-Rutte III with koning Willem-Alexander at Paleis Noordeinde in Den Haag at the new government’s aantreden (taking office). Taken on October 26, 2017. (Image by Valerie Kuypers at Rijksoverheid.nl under license CC0)<\/p><\/div>\n

2021 was a tumultuous year for Dutch politics, and we wrote plenty about it<\/a>. After all, in times of\u00a0corona<\/em><\/a>, governments around the world have gotten a lot of attention from their constituents. But when almost exactly a year ago, the Dutch government decided to step down, it was because of a different crisis. That’s what we’re discussing in the 5th best post of 2021. Why did they go?<\/p>\n

Number 4: Curious Dutch Words: Uitprinten<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Photo by Bank Phrom<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

In our Curious Dutch Words series<\/a>, we always find some interesting tidbits that to me, as a Dutch person, may not sound so weird. But when you look at it from an English perspective, they are super odd! The same with\u00a0uitprinten<\/em>. We know the word\u00a0to print<\/em>. What on earth is\u00a0uit\u00a0<\/em>doing there? Here’s what’s going on with that curious Dutch word.<\/p>\n

Number 3: How 4 Words Caused a Political Crisis in the Netherlands<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n