{"id":229765,"date":"2026-06-01T04:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229765"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:54:28","slug":"controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229765","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Brussels municipality applies to be European Capital of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Molenbeek-Saint Jean has applied to be one of the 2030 European Capitals of Culture. The central Brussels municipality aims to show the world its vibrant and multicultural side and it aims to clean up its tarnished image through the cultural programme.<br \/>\nWith the application submission, Molenbeek becomes one of the six Belgian municipalities vying for the honour of being one of the first three cultural capitals to herald in the new decade on the continent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themayor.eu\/en\/a\/view\/controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture-12751\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molenbeek-Saint Jean has applied to be one of the 2030 European Capitals of Culture. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229765-controversial-brussels-municipality-applies-to-be-european-capital-of-culture.jpg",300,300,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}