{"id":764,"date":"2005-09-20T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=764"},"modified":"2005-09-20T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T22:33:28","slug":"days-and-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Days and days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or days, I&#8217;ve been wanting to write something about the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0424435\/\">&#8216;Shake Hands With The Devil&#8217;<\/a>, a Canadian production about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romeo_Dallaire\">Dallaire&#8217;s<\/a> return to Rwanda, 10 years after the genocide.  I simply can&#8217;t find the words. The documentary is <em>good<\/em>: I was surprised about how Dallaire literally spills his gall about the Belgians, and frankly, I don&#8217;t blame him.\n<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home: today I could not find the Dutch word for &#8216;hurricane&#8217;. For some kind of reason the word was gone from my vocabulary: probably this has to do with the fact I&#8217;m seeing and hearing about hurricanes over and over. There are no hurricanes in Europe. Stormsurges, yes. Hurricanes no. Alfons reminded me (the other day) of the early Dutch Nineties  storm  [I can&#8217;t remember exactly the year], which was pretty scary too. At that time I was still a student taking the train forth and back from school to home. I can only remember that trains weren&#8217;t running and that plenty people got stuck on railway stations. I managed to get home one way or another in a train that was so laden full of people that people tried to get into to train via the windows.\n<\/p>\n<p>No really. That was a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For days, I&#8217;ve been wanting to write something about the documentary &#8216;Shake Hands With The Devil&#8217;, a Canadian production about Dallaire&#8217;s return to Rwanda, 10 years after the genocide. I simply can&#8217;t find the words. The documentary is good: I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=764\">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\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}