{"id":471,"date":"2004-01-18T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T20:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=471"},"modified":"2004-01-18T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T20:56:59","slug":"srv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"SRV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>Y<\/span>ou know your mind is getting retarded when you start to sing a song out of the blue. Just like that I was humming the song of the <em>heroic<\/em> Dutch SRV man:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&#8220;Leve de man van de SRV van je hiep, hiep, hiep hoeree!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<small>Long live the man of the SRV, hip-hip-hurray<\/small>)\n<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late Seventies, early Eighties, there used to be SRV trucks driving around neighbourhoods: stores on wheels so to say. Rather expensive too: over at the local supermarket things were generally cheaper. I suppose, you pay for the convenience. As young kids, I remember, we used to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topps.com\/Confectionery\/conf_history.html\">our Bazooka bubble gum<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speelzolder.com\/koken\/traktaties\/traktaties.htm\">&#8216;dropveters&#8217;<\/a>, &#8216;dropmunt&#8217; and other treats.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, I wonder if there are still SRV trucks driving around. A quick look at Google tells me there actually are. Naturally, in a liberal country like the Netherlands, people nowadays associate SRV trucks with &#8216;other things&#8217;. Who would have thought back in those days.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you get older, you appreciate the innocent life you lived when you were young, a kid, and invincible,  freely roaming and playing on the streets. Today, I wouldn&#8217;t even think about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know your mind is getting retarded when you start to sing a song out of the blue. Just like that I was humming the song of the heroic Dutch SRV man: &#8220;Leve de man van de SRV van je &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=471\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}