{"id":2579,"date":"2011-12-24T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2011-12-24T00:08:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:08:53","slug":"vaclav-havels-street-in-gdansk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/vaclav-havels-street-in-gdansk\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaclav Havel&#8217;s street in Gda\u0144sk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gda\u0144sk \u2014 the birthplace of Poland\u2019s Solidarity movement (<strong>ruch Solidarno\u015b\u0107<\/strong>)\u2014 has renamed a street after Vaclav Havel to honor the Czech anti-communist icon deeply revered (<strong>czczony<\/strong>)\u00a0by Poles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/12\/images-56.jpeg\" aria-label=\"Images 56\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2580\"  alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2011\/12\/images-56.jpeg\"><\/a>Officials in the city, the home of Poland\u2019s own anti-communist icon Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa, inaugurated <strong>Vaclav Havel Avenue<\/strong>\u00a0today, the same day the Czech playwright (<strong>dramaturg<\/strong>)\u00a0and president (<strong>prezydent<\/strong>) was being laid to rest in his homeland (<strong>ojczyzna<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Officials say they believe it\u2019s the first street worldwide to be named for Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Vaclav Havel was always a faithful friend (<strong>wierny przyjaciel<\/strong>)\u00a0of Poland and the Polish people. He left a very clear and beautiful mark on the contemporary Europe (<strong>wsp\u00f3\u0142czesna Europa<\/strong>), and the Central Europe in particular&#8221; &#8211; said President Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>&#8220;I believe we all share the same sense of great loss (<strong>poczucie wielkiej straty<\/strong>). We have lost a trusted friend who continued to be such also in hard times&#8221; &#8211; noted Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski as he learned about the death of the former President of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Following the decision of the President of Poland, the state flags flying at the Presidential Palace and the Belweder Palace were lowered at half-mast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gda\u0144sk \u2014 the birthplace of Poland\u2019s Solidarity movement (ruch Solidarno\u015b\u0107)\u2014 has renamed a street after Vaclav Havel to honor the Czech anti-communist icon deeply revered (czczony)\u00a0by Poles. Officials in the city, the home of Poland\u2019s own anti-communist icon Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa, inaugurated Vaclav Havel Avenue\u00a0today, the same day the Czech playwright (dramaturg)\u00a0and president (prezydent) was being&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/vaclav-havels-street-in-gdansk\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,10166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}