{"id":2097,"date":"2009-04-17T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2009-05-05T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:30:08","slug":"april-doet-wat-hij-wil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2097","title":{"rendered":"April Doet Wat Hij Wil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Empty Balconies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/3448984931\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3368\/3448984931_ffa5a23b31.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Empty Balconies\" width=\"455\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>April doet wat hij wil <\/em>is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands.\u00a0 It means \u201cApril does what it wants\u201d, and boy does it!\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it.\u00a0\u00a0 We go from days of 20-25 degree sunny weather, to 10-15 degrees and rain.\u00a0 For me, that means there is always a break from the warm weather and we still get the odd cozy rainy day.\u00a0 That makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p>I took the above photo this morning from our balcony.\u00a0 Our house being the only one with the balcony door still open, while all our neighbours close everything up tight.\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t really mind the rainy weather at this time of year.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything looks so much more beautiful after the rain.\u00a0 The greens are more green, the flowers look even more spectacular as they bloom and everything smells so lovely.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I am going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keukenhof.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keukenhof<\/a> with my photography club.\u00a0 I\u2019ve haven\u2019t been there for a few years now and I\u2019m quite eager to test out the new camera in such a beautiful environment.\u00a0 Thousands upon thousands of fresh flowers\u2026 tulips galore!\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be great!<\/p>\n<p>Aaaah, I love spring in the Netherlands.\u00a0 I really do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April doet wat hij wil is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands.\u00a0 It means \u201cApril does what it wants\u201d, and boy does it!\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it.\u00a0\u00a0 We go from days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,49],"tags":[69,33,147,98],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","category-life-in-nl","category-photography","tag-neighbours","tag-netherlands","tag-spring","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}