{"id":38,"date":"2013-11-04T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T14:17:47","slug":"belgiantv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/2013\/11\/04\/belgiantv\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian TV: Surprisingly British!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Those who know me well will know that I have a strong interest in radio, and occasionally TV. The first thing I usually do when I arrive in a foreign country is switch on the TV\/Radio.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This trip to Belgium is no exception, despite the fact that I speak neither Flemish (the Belgian dialect of Dutch), nor French.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine the surprise I got when I switched on the TV to find Eggheads with Jeremy Vine on one side, and the BBC News at 6 on the other! Very useful for keeping up to date with the latest news. There are also in excess of 30 other TV channels available here, most in either French, Flemish\/Dutch or German.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147\" alt=\"Belgian TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/belgiantv.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/belgiantv.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/belgiantv-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/11\/belgiantv-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know me well will know that I have a strong interest in radio, and occasionally TV. The first thing I usually do when I arrive in a foreign country is switch on the TV\/Radio. This trip to Belgium is no exception, despite the fact that I speak neither Flemish (the Belgian dialect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,18,17,23,19],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-bbc-news","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-television","tag-thon-hotel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/brussels2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}