{"id":32783,"date":"2026-08-16T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/32783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:11:13","slug":"grand-place-in-brussels-blooms-into-a-giant-japanese-inspired-flower-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/32783\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand-Place in Brussels blooms into a giant Japanese-inspired flower carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sea of flowers is covering Brussels\u2019 historic Grand-Place this week as the Belgian capital welcomes the 2026 edition of its iconic Flower Carpet. The 2026 carpet draws inspiration from Japan and is based on a reinterpretation of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai\u2019s famous woodblock print, \u201cThe Great Wave off Kanagawa.\u201d (AP video shot by Ahmad Seir Nassiri)<\/p>\n<p>A sea of flowers is covering Brussels\u2019 historic Grand-Place this week as the Belgian capital welcomes the 2026 edition of its iconic Flower Carpet. The 2026 carpet draws inspiration from Japan and is based on a reinterpretation of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai\u2019s famous woodblock print, \u201cThe Great Wave off Kanagawa.\u201d (AP video shot by Ahmad Seir Nassiri)<\/p>\n<p>                    Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<br \/>\n                    \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sea of flowers is covering Brussels\u2019 historic Grand-Place this week as the Belgian capital welcomes the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[17649,7,18,2899,11201,17650,8118],"class_list":["post-32783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-ahmad-seir-nassiri","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-entertainment","tag-hiro-sugiyama","tag-mariane-libertine","tag-media-api-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117104888177191033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}