{"id":3779,"date":"2026-01-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:24:38","slug":"this-was-the-officers-ball-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/this-was-the-officers-ball-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"This was the Officers&#8217; Ball 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once again a splendid ball night, hosted in the magnificient ambience of the Vienna Hofburg, comes to a close. As is tradition, the officers of the Austrian Armed Forces were pleased to invite their guests for the 77<sup>th<\/sup> Officers&#8217; Ball which took place at from January 16<sup>th<\/sup> to 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2026. With &#8220;Roses of the South&#8221; as the motto for this years&#8217; ball we were pleased to welcome Italy as the host nation. Together we celebrated and danced with a variety of guests from near and far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a special highlight of the evening, the <em>Banda dell`Esercito Italiano<\/em> and the Guards Band Vienna performed a musical show during the opening ceremony. Furthermore, the midnight show &#8220;La Dolce Vita &#8211; Vienna and Italy&#8221; as well as late night show, by de band <em>Dolce Vita<\/em>, delighted the ball audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, the ball committee, would like to take this opportunity to thank all guests for their attendance &#8211; you make the Officers&#8217; Ball the magnificient event which it always is! We are delighted to welcome you again on January 15<sup>th<\/sup> 2027 for the 100 years anniversary of the Officers&#8217; Ball!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to relive the memories of the Officers&#8217; Ball 2026, we invite you to take a look at the photo gallery of the past ball right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/fotovideo\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1674\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again a splendid ball night, hosted in the magnificient ambience of the Vienna Hofburg, comes to a close. As is tradition, the officers of the Austrian Armed Forces were pleased to invite their guests for the 77th Officers&#8217; Ball which took place at from January 16th to 17th 2026. With &#8220;Roses of the South&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballderoffiziere.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}