{"id":80,"date":"2007-04-28T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2007-04-28T19:23:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T18:23:45","slug":"week-16-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=80","title":{"rendered":"Week 16: Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend of April 19th-22nd in Copenhagen, visiting friends and meeting up with my sister who came up from Poland. The images I present here are mainly of the people with whom I spent the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is my brother-in-law Telesfor and my childhood friend Beata. Telesfor is 69 but does not act like a senior citizen. In fact, he is one of this world&#8217;s greatest bullshit artists, and here is practicing his art with Beata:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16.jpg\" alt=\"0738\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 1<\/em><br \/>\nBeata has two adorable children. Here is her 6-year old daughter Natalia:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt1.jpg\" alt=\"0695\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 2<\/em><br \/>\nCyclists and shadows on \u00c3\u0192\u00cb\u0153sterbro:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt2.jpg\" alt=\"0615\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 3<\/em><br \/>\nBicycle graveyard, Classensgade:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt3.jpg\" alt=\"0618\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 4<\/em><br \/>\nBesides Natalia, Beata also has a 3-year old son. Here he is, busy with breakfast:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt4.jpg\" alt=\"0598\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 5<\/em><br \/>\nBeata&#8217;s upstairs neighbour and friend Hanne came out with us one evening for a few beers. Here, the two of them are enjoying the moment:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt5.jpg\" alt=\"0752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 6<\/em><br \/>\n&#8230;and here is Hanne during what appears to be a serious conversation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt6.jpg\" alt=\"0755\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 7<\/em><br \/>\nThis is a special place for me. On this bench, on Vallensb\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a6k Strand, I have sat down with my mother many times over the years. She died on April 21st, 2001.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt7.jpg\" alt=\"0747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 8<\/em><br \/>\nOn Sunday, I went to the Jewish cemetery where my father is buried, and where the Jewish community of Copenhagen had gathered for the annual commemoration of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Bent Lexner, the Chief Rabbi of Denmark, in the middle of his speech:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt8.jpg\" alt=\"0814\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 9<\/em><br \/>\nAfter the speeches, flowers were laid, by young and old, at the monument to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt9.jpg\" alt=\"0821\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 10<\/em><br \/>\nMany of the people who come to this commemoration are elderly. They do not get out much, and so this is partly a social occasion for them:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt10.jpg\" alt=\"0824\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alternate 11<\/em><br \/>\nAnd finally, my least favourite place in Copenhagen: the departure lounge at Kastrup airport. It means that I am leaving this wonderful place. At least my Internet friends are there to keep me company:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2007\/16alt11.jpg\" alt=\"0828\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the weekend of April 19th-22nd in Copenhagen, visiting friends and meeting up with my sister who came up from Poland. The images I present here are mainly of the people with whom I spent the weekend. Main This is my brother-in-law Telesfor and my childhood friend Beata. Telesfor is 69 but does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"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\/80"}],"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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}