{"id":50,"date":"2006-11-04T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:30:18","slug":"week-43","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Week 43: Den Haag etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is again a bit of a mixed bag&#8211;just some snippets of my life here in the Netherlands. There is going to be a general election here on November 22nd, and the campaign is in full swing. One of the fringe parties running is called <em>Partij voor de Dieren<\/em>, a single-issue party focused on animal rights. I caught one of their campaigners talking to a rather sceptical voter on a street in Hilversum:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43.jpg\" alt=\"7304\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the weekend, I rode my motorcycle to the nearby town of Harderwijk, a beautiful place on the water:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt1.jpg\" alt=\"7330\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 125)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One evening that same evening, we were playing Scrabble in our living room. I crushed my wife and the children, of course \ud83d\ude42 Here are my son and daughter, ganging up on Dad to no avail:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt2.jpg\" alt=\"7335\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 1600)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday we went to The Hague to walk around a bit. My wife and our daughter hit the shops while I hit the streets. Here are two couples, the first one on the square opposite the royal palace, the second on the main square of the city:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt3.jpg\" alt=\"7340\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt4.jpg\" alt=\"7362\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 135mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The statue of Willem I on the main square gets absolutely no respect:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt5.jpg\" alt=\"7347\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 135mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A man reads the newspaper on the square:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt6.jpg\" alt=\"7353\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 135mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The final image is from my commute to work. I often stop at this rest area (De Lucht on the A2 motorway). A motorway rest area is a rather mundane place, but it can be transformed into something interesting by the light of the rising sun:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/43alt7.jpg\" alt=\"7381\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 200)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is again a bit of a mixed bag&#8211;just some snippets of my life here in the Netherlands. There is going to be a general election here on November 22nd, and the campaign is in full swing. One of the fringe parties running is called Partij voor de Dieren, a single-issue party focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}