{"id":268682,"date":"2020-01-17T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=268682"},"modified":"2020-01-17T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:29:39","slug":"children-recite-eminescu-poems-in-foreign-languages-at-bellu-cemetery-on-romanias-culture-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/children-recite-eminescu-poems-in-foreign-languages-at-bellu-cemetery-on-romanias-culture-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Children recite Eminescu poems in foreign languages at Bellu Cemetery on Romania\u2019s culture day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Several students from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isb.ro\/\">International School of Bucharest<\/a> on Wednesday went to Bellu Cemetery on Romania\u2019s Culture Day to honour the national poet Mihai Eminescu by reciting his writings in several languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mihai Eminescu, born on January 15, 1850 in the village of Ipotesti, near Botosani, in North-Eastern Romania, is considered to be Romania\u2019s greatest poet. He was also a novelist and an important journalist of his time. To honour his memory, Romania celebrates the National Culture Day on January 15.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-268682-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eminescu-\u00een-limba-japoneza.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eminescu-\u00een-limba-japoneza.mp4\">https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eminescu-\u00een-limba-japoneza.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The children recited Eminescu\u2019s poems in Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>The moment was followed by a memorial service officiated by His Grace Bishop Timotei of Prahova next to Eminescu\u2019s tomb.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268390\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-268390 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-13-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student reciting Eminescu&#8217;s poems in Romanian. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268388\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-268388 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eminescu&#8217;s poem recited in Spanish by a student from the International School of Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several students from the International School of Bucharest on Wednesday went to Bellu Cemetery on Romania\u2019s Culture Day to honour the national poet Mihai Eminescu by reciting his writings in several languages. Mihai Eminescu, born on January 15, 1850 in the village of Ipotesti, near Botosani, in North-Eastern Romania, is considered to be Romania\u2019s greatest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13894,22289,4975,22288,4973,10386],"class_list":["post-268682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations","tag-bellu-cemetery","tag-mihai-eminescu-en","tag-national-culture-day","tag-national-day-of-culture","tag-national-poet","tag-orthodox-news"],"better_featured_image":{"id":268397,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1280,"file":"2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-16.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"15ianuarie2020-16-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-16-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"15ianuarie2020-16-890x593.jpg","width":890,"height":593,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-16-890x593.jpg"},"large":{"file":"15ianuarie2020-16-1024x683.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-16-1024x683.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark IV","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1579082371","copyright":"","focal_length":"35","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/15ianuarie2020-16.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268682\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=268682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268682\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268397\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=268682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=268682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=268682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}