{"id":17,"date":"2007-02-05T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/02\/05\/amsterdam\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T03:31:49","slug":"amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/02\/05\/amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amsterdam\">Amsterdam, NL<\/a>, a few years ago for a friend&#8217;s birthday. While deleting old e-mails came across a link to this great overview of Amsterdam:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postwarmedia.nl\/amsterdam.html\">How not to get hit by a bike.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sad part is that there are people who literally avoid Amsterdam because they&#8217;re not interested in dope, hookers or tulips. A friend of mine was once touring Europe with some of his art school pals, but chose not to join them on their side-trip to Amsterdam. &#8220;Nah I&#8217;m not into that stuff,&#8221; he figured. So he missed the Vermeers and the cool buildings and the open-air caf\u00e9s and street music and canals and bridges and the basic bliss of aimless wandering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/img_2724_auto.jpg' title='Amsterdam bridge.'><img src='http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/img_2724_auto.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Amsterdam bridge.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myself and some friends ended up staying at Pieter&#8217;s Apartment that we rented from Wimmo &#038; Godwin who run this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barangay.nl\">B&#038;B<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was in Amsterdam, NL, a few years ago for a friend&#8217;s birthday. While deleting old e-mails came across a link to this great overview of Amsterdam: How not to get hit by a bike. The sad part is that there are people who literally avoid Amsterdam because they&#8217;re not interested in dope, hookers or tulips. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/02\/05\/amsterdam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amsterdam!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}