{"id":295,"date":"2003-09-13T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=295"},"modified":"2003-09-13T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T18:42:25","slug":"gansevoort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Gansevoort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span> picture over at the Gothamist,  of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2003\/09\/12\/gansevoort_market.php\">NYC&#8217;s Gansevoort market<\/a>, reminds me of a city in the east of The Netherlands, that is Deventer. For some kind of reason I thought I recognized &#8216;De Waag &#8216; (The Scale) on &#8216;De Brink&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a similar shot as made in Deventer, but ended up over at <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.residentie.net\/~schram-12\/deveng.htm\">this page<\/a> with plenty of other images of places I recognized. My favourite shot is the one <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.residentie.net\/~schram-12\/dev11.jpg\">overseeing &#8216;De Brink&#8217;<\/a>: for obvious reasons. Spot my bike in this <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.residentie.net\/~schram-12\/dev24.jpg\">picture<\/a>! Or see this image of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.residentie.net\/~schram-12\/dev06.jpg\">famous<\/a> store in The Netherlands (that&#8217;s where we also bought our <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000040.html\">first computer<\/a>), pretty much comparable with our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margolians.com\/graphics\/truro_postcard.gif\">Margolians<\/a>. Or any department store.\n<\/p>\n<p>As for Gansevoort, it&#8217;s a Dutch word consisting of two parts: Gans (&#8216;Goose) and voort (basically an undeep spot in a river, where people normally cross).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture over at the Gothamist, of the NYC&#8217;s Gansevoort market, reminds me of a city in the east of The Netherlands, that is Deventer. For some kind of reason I thought I recognized &#8216;De Waag &#8216; (The Scale) on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=295\">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\/295"}],"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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}