{"id":32529,"date":"2017-01-01T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=32529"},"modified":"2017-01-01T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T23:24:00","slug":"new-years-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/new-years-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the\u00a0Mexicans knew how to party. Remind me of tonight if I ever again complain about noise in\u00a0Mexico&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Crude street level firecrackers have been going off all day. It&#8217;s extremely loud. But I&#8217;ve been able to enjoy a lovely display of more professional fireworks right from the couch. I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t have to be up tomorrow because I think it&#8217;s going to be a late one tonight, what with all the popping and the carousing in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of this is that the older, aloof cat has decided I&#8217;m less scary and is currently curled up against me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This is just a taste of what I&#8217;ve been watching since it got dark today. Or yesterday, I guess. Seven hours and counting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Year&#039;s in Amsterdam\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XA3vRdcAjfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the\u00a0Mexicans knew how to party. Remind me of tonight if I ever again complain about noise in\u00a0Mexico&#8230; Crude street level firecrackers have been going off all day. It&#8217;s extremely loud. But I&#8217;ve been able to enjoy a lovely display of more professional fireworks right from the couch. I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,636,1607,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam","category-europe","category-netherlands","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32536,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529\/revisions\/32536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}