{"id":179,"date":"2017-09-06T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:47:26","slug":"the-uae-celebrates-national-day-at-expo-2017-astana-launches-emirati-kazakh-friendship-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/the-uae-celebrates-national-day-at-expo-2017-astana-launches-emirati-kazakh-friendship-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE Celebrates National Day At Expo 2017 Astana, Launches \u2018Emirati-Kazakh Friendship Days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Media Council (NMC) organised symbolic celebrations to mark the UAE\u2019s National Day at Expo 2017 Astana, which concludes on Sunday, September 10, 2017, in the Kazakh capital.<\/p>\n<p>A long-standing tradition at world expos, the \u201csymbolic national day\u201d allows participating countries to showcase their culture, heritage and traditions to the international audience. The festivities included a broad range of exciting cultural and artistic performances that reflect the UAE\u2019s rich and deep-rooted heritage, including a performance by the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development\u2019s UAE National Band for Folklore Arts, as well as a flag parade to the UAE Pavilion and engaging displays of traditional henna and Arabic calligraphy, with popular Emirati dishes to sample.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-180 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UAE-National-Day-at-Expo-2017-Astana-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UAE-National-Day-at-Expo-2017-Astana-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UAE-National-Day-at-Expo-2017-Astana-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UAE-National-Day-at-Expo-2017-Astana-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UAE-National-Day-at-Expo-2017-Astana-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Media Council (NMC) organised symbolic celebrations to mark the UAE\u2019s National Day at Expo 2017 Astana, which concludes on Sunday, September 10, 2017, in the Kazakh capital. A long-standing tradition at world expos, the \u201csymbolic national day\u201d allows participating countries to showcase their culture, heritage and traditions to the international audience. The festivities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}