{"id":3657,"date":"2012-01-05T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2012-01-05T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:53:15","slug":"layover-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Layover: Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0327-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3658\" title=\"IMG_0327-1\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0327-1-440x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0327-1-440x275.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0327-1-620x387.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0327-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-04-AMS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3659\" title=\"2012 01-04 AMS\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-04-AMS-620x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-04-AMS-620x387.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-04-AMS-440x275.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I spent an afternoon in Amsterdam before heading back to Firenze for the start of the second term. It started out to be a long walk around the canal path the tour boat takes you on but by two o&#8217;clock it was pouring rain. I scrambled back to the train station ducking under awnings and dashing over the low bridges everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The red light district took me by surprise. One low retail window opened onto the pink powder room of a woman on the early shift, brushing her hair while looking in the mirror. I passed by a few of the famous aromatic coffee shops too, it seems like there&#8217;s one on every street corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a beautiful city, but I was exhausted from not sleeping on the flight over and got rained out anyway so I go back to be airport with a few hours to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent an afternoon in Amsterdam before heading back to Firenze for the start of the second term. It started out to be a long walk around the canal path the tour boat takes you on but by two o&#8217;clock it was pouring rain. I scrambled back to the train station ducking under awnings and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[381,429],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal","tag-amsterdam","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}