{"id":12,"date":"2010-06-21T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-06-22T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:54:50","slug":"12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Anne Frank House\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-012-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-012-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><div id=\"attachment_15\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ole Ole! Team Netherlands\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-012-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-012-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stadium set up outside the airport for the public to watch the World Cup<\/p><\/div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-078.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-078-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"One of the canals in Amsterdam\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-078-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amsterdam-078-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><div id=\"attachment_13\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-017-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Finally someone makes shoes in my size!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-017-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-017-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FIrst-Day-in-Tanzania-017.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me in my wooden shoes in Amsterdam June 19, 2010<\/p><\/div>Well, I didn&#8217;t expect my first entry on my trip to Africa to be about Holland, but due to a delayed flight, we spent the first night and day of our journey exploring Amsterdam.  I had not known that Amsterdam is called &#8220;the Venice of the North&#8221; due to its many canals.  We spent the afternoon on a boat touring the city.   Many people had houses literally on the water or lived in houseboats!  It was fun to watch people ride down the canals on their boats grilling out, having drinks, and socializing.  World cup fever was in the air and the canals were a sea of bright orange t-shirts for team Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t expect my first entry on my trip to Africa to be about Holland, but due to a delayed flight, we spent the first night and day of our journey exploring Amsterdam. I had not known that Amsterdam is called &#8220;the Venice of the North&#8221; due to its many canals. We spent the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lauralandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}