{"id":59,"date":"2005-04-06T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-04-06T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T01:25:09","slug":"mindless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Mindless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span>ne of the reasons not to use FlickR is the connection it has with a rather rude Dutch cursing word. That&#8217;s a joke. Really. Right.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mindlessly browsing through the collection of <em>public<\/em> photos, I ended up over at and around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/deventer\/\">Deventer tag<\/a>, looking for familiar scenes. There are plenty of them (hey,  Alfons&#8217; pictures are there too. Do you recognize them?): interesting are the ones shot at the (Deventer) &#8216;Dickens Festival&#8217;. It&#8217;s one of the Winter attractions in that very city I visited a couple of months ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>I never liked that festival and at one time I had to accompany a friend of mine, who apparently really really liked it. I didn&#8217;t. But I already mentioned that, right? Anyways, that Dickens&#8217; fest, it&#8217;s always held around Christmas time: it&#8217;s that time of the year it can be cold, but not as cold as in Nova Scotia.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tip: the only big attraction in that city is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvvdeventer.nl\/11_08_evenementenBoekenmarkt.php\">August Bookfair<\/a>. But then, I always hated that too, because it was always too crowded to browse through collections of books. Hey. <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/wordpress\">You guys still have my 18something Van Dale dictionary<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons not to use FlickR is the connection it has with a rather rude Dutch cursing word. That&#8217;s a joke. Really. Right. Mindlessly browsing through the collection of public photos, I ended up over at and around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=59\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}