{"id":112581,"date":"2026-04-13T05:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/112581\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:28:15","slug":"voluntary-military-service-becomes-tremendous-success-in-belgium-3248-applicants-for-500-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/112581\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary military service becomes tremendous success in Belgium: 3,248 applicants for 500 places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9I6o4R7FxH5QnBD372OSElzWybhIE2pD5hFpavv4tZ4.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>A total of 3,248 men and women have signed up for Belgium\u2019s first voluntary year of military service, according to figures released by the Ministry of Defense on the final day of registration. Only 500 places were available.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nNo_Substance_99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 3,248 men and women have signed up for Belgium\u2019s first voluntary year of military service,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-112581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116395880156197992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}