{"id":1384,"date":"2007-01-09T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2007-01-10T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T21:19:46","slug":"assorted-thoughts-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Assorted thoughts (III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>y last installment of thoughts about my forth-and-back travels a week ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1381\">earlier musings<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The grass<a id=\"p1383\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1383\" title=\"Smile, you're on TV!\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/vui_lnis_ba_k.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Smile, you're on TV!\" \/><\/a> was magnificent green in The Netherlands, which took me by surprise. Frost had not arrived yet.\n<\/li>\n<li>Canadians should take over the idea of garbage bins for <em>doggy poops<\/em>. I think I&#8217;ve mentioned this before.\n<\/li>\n<li>I considered taking up smoking again. At the end, I decided against it.\n<\/li>\n<li>I was surprised to see the majority of family members smoking cigarettes, something I thought was quite ironic.\n<\/li>\n<li>I did get a recipe to make <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tempeh\">tempeh<\/a><\/em>, but so far, I have not found any (dry) soybeans in local stores. And yes, deepfried fermented soybeans stuff is pretty good. Hey,   bread wouldn&#8217;t be bread without yeast&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Plastic fantastic&#8217; is actually a good lens.\n<\/li>\n<li>I may have eaten my last Indonesian dish in The Netherlands. That is, unless the mister from the Indonesian import stuff (who I met last Friday in Sobeys) manages to convince earlier mentioned grocery store to keep carrying some Indonesian food mixes.\n<\/li>\n<li>I did not watch TV in The Netherlands. OK, for less than half an hour.\n<\/li>\n<li>Nowadays, subtitles confuse me.\n<\/li>\n<li>In Dutch restaurants, coffee is still poured in little bite-sized cups and there&#8217;s no second refill, at all.\n<\/li>\n<li>Railway stations charge 50 Euro cents for a washroom visit. You may just as well hold it up, jump in a train and do it for free (most washrooms on railway stations are coin-operated).\n<\/li>\n<li>For over an hour, while waiting for Alfons, I was watching people during a stopover at Amersfoort railway station.\n<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t mind dining in an <em>American Cuisine Restaurant<\/em>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Dutch humour is generally quite rude.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last installment of thoughts about my forth-and-back travels a week ago (earlier musings): The grass was magnificent green in The Netherlands, which took me by surprise. Frost had not arrived yet. Canadians should take over the idea of garbage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}