{"id":3764,"date":"2010-02-12T23:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3764"},"modified":"2010-05-31T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T20:51:48","slug":"making-the-best-of-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/3764","title":{"rendered":"Making The Best Of The Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/grocerylady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"SONY DSC\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/grocerylady_thumb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This lady definitely made the best of the recent snow here in Rotterdam.&#160;&#160; When we saw her coming we initially thought she had a kid in the sled, but when she got up close we realized it was her groceries.&#160; We told her how clever we thought it was and she said she figured if she had to drag it home after dropping her kid off at school, she may as well put it to good use!<\/p>\n<p>Even the hardcore snow lovers like me are getting tired of the snow here in the Netherlands, though we don\u2019t get nearly as much as in other countries.&#160; It\u2019s great in the beginning because it reminds me of home and usually comes before Christmas so it gets me really wound up and excited about the holiday season.&#160; The down side is that what you see in this photo is considered a lot of snow here.&#160;&#160; We never get that real winter wonderland that I remember in Canada.&#160; It\u2019s white for a day or two and then it\u2019s just slippery, slushy and patchy.&#160; The first snow is awesome, the second snow is exciting\u2026 after that, I\u2019m over it.&#160;&#160; It doesn\u2019t help that this country isn\u2019t prepared for it so everything goes tits up.&#160; Trains don\u2019t run, people aren\u2019t experienced with winter driving and are nervous, which can get dangerous.&#160; The kind of snow that we get here that hardly covers your shoes is more dramatic than the snow that has you crawling out windows to shovel doors free in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>So when it snowed again on Tuesday I was unhappy.&#160; I figured I could sit at home and grump about it or get out and try to enjoy it.&#160; Like this lady I decided to make the best of it.&#160; Xander and I bundled up, we got the dogs ready, grabbed my camera and went out for a nice long walk.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how long you can walk in the cold with a camera in your hands!&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lady definitely made the best of the recent snow here in Rotterdam.&#160;&#160; When we saw her coming we initially thought she had a kid in the sled, but when she got up close we realized it was her groceries.&#160; We told her how clever we thought it was and she said she figured if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49],"tags":[283,98,350],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-photography","tag-snow","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}