{"id":14715,"date":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/thjodhatid-fagnad-i-hafnarfirdi\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:17:28","slug":"national-holiday-celebrated-in-hafnarfjordur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/thjodhatid-fagnad-i-hafnarfirdi\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day celebrated in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Hello, ho and jibber-jay in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>National Day begins in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<br \/>\nat the first cock crow with a flag-hoisting on the Rock and throughout the town. All interested<br \/>\ncan take part in a parade which starts at Hraunbyrgi at 1 pm and ends at<br \/>\nThe Learning Centre by the Stream where the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Brass Band plays a few tunes. A year ago, the people of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and friends of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur were encouraged<br \/>\nto hold their own national day in the garden at home, but this year there will be an entertainment programme on offer everywhere.<br \/>\nroads around the town.<\/p>\n<h4>Entertainment at four venues<\/h4>\n<p>Thorsplan has for years been the main festival site for National Day in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. This year, the event will take place at the Gr\u00e6na H\u00fasi\u00f0.<br \/>\nentertainment programme, however, at four venues; Hellisger\u00f0i, H\u00f6r\u00f0uvellir, V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0at\u00fan and<br \/>\nThorsplan. The programme is varied;<br \/>\nEverything from concerts to circus and bubble art. Artist in Residence of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<br \/>\nIn 2021, Fri\u00f0rik D\u00f3r will be taking over two venues with GDRN, and the disco D\u00edsa will<br \/>\nkeeping up the fun, Vikings will be roaming V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0at\u00fan and the scouts are offering in<br \/>\nplay, a climbing wall and canoeing. An open house will be held, among other places, at the Sports Hall at<br \/>\nStrandgata, Hafnarfjar\u00f0arbiblioteki\u00f0, Hafnarborg and the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum.<br \/>\nUnexpected events will then be on offer around town. The 2021 Mountain Maiden of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and<br \/>\nHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's 2020 Artist in Residence, Bergr\u00fan \u00cdris S\u00e6varsd\u00f3ttir, will recite a poem.<br \/>\nat the opening of the national day programme in Hellisger\u00f0i.  <\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the national day with us at home<br \/>\nin Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u2013  <a href=\"http:\/\/hfj.is\/17juni\">See the programme<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e6 h\u00f3 og jibb\u00fd jei \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i&nbsp; \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ardagur hefst \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i vi\u00f0 fyrsta hanagal me\u00f0 f\u00e1nahyllingu \u00e1 Hamrinum og v\u00ed\u00f0svegar um b\u00e6inn. Allir \u00e1hugasamir geta teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed skr\u00fa\u00f0g\u00f6ngu sem hefst vi\u00f0 Hraunbyrgi kl. 13 og endar vi\u00f0 Menntasetri\u00f0 vi\u00f0 L\u00e6kinn \u00fear sem L\u00fa\u00f0rasveit Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar spilar nokkur l\u00f6g. Fyrir \u00e1ri s\u00ed\u00f0an voru Hafnfir\u00f0ingar og vinir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}