{"id":3303,"date":"2011-10-17T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/10\/17\/it-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:40:43","slug":"it-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/10\/17\/it-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"It has begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/S0bPrbf_Nw0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/S0bPrbf_Nw0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nSandra has had a final talk with her doctors this morning, they&#8217;ve taken out her central line and therefore stopped the antibiotics and extra fluids she was getting through it. We don&#8217;t know how long it will take for her to &#8230;. cross over to the western lands, but the end game has begun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not happy about it, but I do understand it. And anyway, at least we got to celebrate her birthday yesterday: a proper Sunday roast with all the trimmings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEDIT: speaking of that Sunday roast, a big shoutout to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoopman.nl\/\">Hoopman Irish Pub<\/a> on Leidseplein. We had no luck in finding a pub or restaurant which could cater something like this until my brother&#8217;s girlfriend rang them up and they immediately said they would be more than happy to do so. They quoted a price of some 170 euros to provide a meal for twelve, but when it was actually time to pay they said it was on them. There was no reason for them to do that, I would&#8217;ve been more than happy to pay for what was an excellent meal, but they went through all that trouble just because they wanted to show some kindness to strangers. So erm, if you&#8217;re ever in Amsterdam, look me up and we&#8217;ll have a pint there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLeast I could do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(As somebody whose sentimental side mostly comes out through music, Fairport Convention&#8217;s &#8220;Meet on the Ledge&#8221; always had the chills running down my spine, but this last year it never fails to choke me up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra has had a final talk with her doctors this morning, they&#8217;ve taken out her central line and therefore stopped the antibiotics and extra fluids she was getting through it. We don&#8217;t know how long it will take for her to &#8230;. cross over to the western lands, but the end game has begun. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}