{"id":2734,"date":"2008-12-17T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2016-12-18T03:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:14:54","slug":"amsterdam-rondvaart-cruising-the-canals-with-oma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/12\/17\/amsterdam-rondvaart-cruising-the-canals-with-oma\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam Rondvaart &#8211; Cruising the Canals with Oma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nederland\/oma_frank_boat.jpg?resize=500%2C699\" alt=\"Rondvaart with Oma circa 1964\" width=\"500\" height=\"699\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rondvaart with Oma circa 1964<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nederland\/oma_cigarette.jpg?resize=500%2C517\" alt=\"Oma with the cigarettes that killed her.\" width=\"500\" height=\"517\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oma with the cigarettes that killed her.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/nederland\/willy_frank_boat_adam.jpg?resize=500%2C706\" alt=\"Another Annual Summer Rondvaart circa 1966\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Annual Summer Rondvaart with my mom Willy &#8211; circa 1965<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The first pleasure cruise in the history of the Amsterdam canals took place in 1621 when Queen Elisabeth Stuart of Bohemia was welcomed into the city in a parade of festively decorated admiralty sloops, with thousands of Amsterdammers cheering on bridges and canal-sides. Treating visiting royals and other VIP&#8217;s to a cruise on our canals became a tradition that lives on till today. From Winston Churchill to the Beatles and Nelson Mandela, almost all our famous guests have made their acquaintance with the city from the deck of a canal cruise boat.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsterdam.info\/tours\/canalcruise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rondvaart &#8211; Canal Cruises<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first pleasure cruise in the history of the Amsterdam canals took place in 1621 when Queen Elisabeth Stuart of Bohemia was welcomed into the city in a parade of festively decorated admiralty sloops, with thousands of Amsterdammers cheering on bridges and canal-sides. Treating visiting royals and other VIP&#8217;s to a cruise on our canals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1074,1316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam","category-netherlands","category-rondvaart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-I6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18766,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}