{"id":1588,"date":"2007-08-23T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T01:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2007-10-14T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:21:06","slug":"a-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"A coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ur <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1587' rel='attachment wp-att-1587' title='Arung Samadera (Halifax Tall Ships 2000)'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/a_rung_samadera.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Arung Samadera (Halifax Tall Ships 2000)' \/><\/a>brain&#8217;s ability to dish out memories whenever it thinks we need  them is absolutely mind boggling. This morning I was reading that article about an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6960444.stm\">Indonesian naval ship that ran aground in Australia<\/a>: it was heading for a tall ships show in Sydney. The &#8216;Arung Samudera&#8217; (a 35-metre schooner) however ran into trouble in heavy weather. No crew member got lost and since the ship wasn&#8217;t too much damaged, there&#8217;s a good change the ship may be sailing again.\n<\/p>\n<p>After reading the article, somehow I thought the ship&#8217;s name rang a bell. So, I dug into the collection of older scanned-in photos and, <em>voila<\/em>. There&#8217;s no particular reason why I  noticed this ship during my visit to Tall Ships 2000: the ship itself wasn&#8217;t as big as the other ones and I&#8217;m almost certain that that ship wasn&#8217;t open for visitors either. However, it was the only Indonesian ship in the harbour and my brain thought that was probably reason enough to store and retain the ship&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brain&#8217;s ability to dish out memories whenever it thinks we need them is absolutely mind boggling. This morning I was reading that article about an Indonesian naval ship that ran aground in Australia: it was heading for a tall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1588\">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":[10,11],"tags":[179,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}