{"id":14,"date":"2007-08-19T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/bosn\/2007\/08\/19\/the-rain-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T00:22:00","slug":"the-rain-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/2007\/08\/19\/the-rain-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rain in Spain&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I saw a friend off at Centraal Station and then proceeded to walk around and take some pictures. The sun was shining and everything was drying out.<\/p>\n<p>As I start to head back to the train station it starts to rain again, nothing to worry about, it was a light rain. <\/p>\n<p>I head for a Belgian frites (fries, chips) stand and order my frites with mayonnaise. <\/p>\n<div style='text-align: center'><a href='http:\/\/www.belgianfries.com\/'><img border='0' alt='Vlaamse friet' src='http:\/\/www.belgianfries.com\/images\/world_VlaamseFrietAmsterdam.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/><span style='font-style: italic'>Not my picture, but the frites stand I was waiting at for my frites<\/span><\/div>\n<p>As I waited, I got the distinct impression that someone was dumping all the water from the canals on the city, the way someone would dump a glass of water. <\/p>\n<p>Fumble for the umbrella&#8230;..again&#8230;..balance an umbrella in one hand; hold the Frites in another and with my other hand actually enjoy them. Needless to say, this was <span style='font-weight: bold'>NOT<\/span> going to work. <\/p>\n<p>I run for shelter under the awning of a neighboring restaurant, something I wouldn&#8217;t usually do, but under the circumstances, it was much better than becoming so saturated that I would melt <span style='font-style: italic'>(yes I am made of sugar)<\/span> The rain did let up to a light drizzle and I was able to get to the train station without looking like a wet rat (no comments please) <\/p>\n<p>My umbrella was so saturated it no longer kept the rain off; my camera bag was saturated as well. My camera was in the bottom and did not get wet.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t enjoy walking around in the rain&#8230;..\/end editorial comment<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a friend off at Centraal Station and then proceeded to walk around and take some pictures. The sun was shining and everything was drying out. As I start to head back to the train station it starts to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/2007\/08\/19\/the-rain-in-spain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,7,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amsterdam","category-fries","category-netherlands","category-rain","category-vlaamse-friet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dov-gadol.ca\/blog\/boasn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}