{"id":594,"date":"2007-01-01T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/594"},"modified":"2007-01-01T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T12:36:03","slug":"rainy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/594","title":{"rendered":"Rainy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573676\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/130\/340573676_1b3283f058_m.jpg\" align=\"left\"><\/a>This is how we started ringing the New Year this year.&nbsp; Looking through a rainy window wondering if we want to go outside or not.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t freezing cold like the last few years, it was actually surprisingly warm (about 11 degrees Celsius), but it looked generally nasty outside.<\/p>\n<p>I was so disappointed&#8230; the fireworks is one of the things I look forward to most during the holidays and I wasn&#8217;t sure it was going to happen.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I seriously underestimated the Dutch though.&nbsp; Like a little rain was going to stop them!&nbsp; I love how much the Nederlanders LOVE their fireworks!<\/p>\n<p> <center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573857\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/134\/340573857_7ed1384fb7_s.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573840\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/156\/340573840_1cd7e0fcd1_s.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573817\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/131\/340573817_b9a4849312_s.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573796\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/340573796_69af4ecf1d_s.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573772\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/133\/340573772_768c1ebb85_s.jpg\"><\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Even with the rain I was able to get a few decent photos from our balcony.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I got some video footage as well but there are a few things you need to know before watching it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never have a career in the film industry.\n<li>It was windy as heck AND raining.\n<li>My camera apparently doesn&#8217;t catch fireworks far away.\n<li>I sometimes forget I&#8217;m filming and I swear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AIHt-Fsgqgo\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>I wish the film had come out better.&nbsp; At times when there were loads of fireworks going off a little in the distance all I saw on the screen was blackness.&nbsp; Maybe it was the rain or something&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The rain did stop after a while and the fireworks got really revved up, by that time we were sick of running from one balcony to the other and I&#8217;d already filled up the camera with pics (which turned out to be 90% shit) so we just watched them through the windows while sitting around in the house.&nbsp;&nbsp; They were still going strong at almost 2am when we finally went to bed.&nbsp; Thank god for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/416\" target=\"_blank\">earplugs<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/photos\/album\/72157594145527390\/page\/1\/photo\/340573693\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/133\/340573693_08cafb6dae_m.jpg\"><\/a>By about 12:30am this is what the air was like. I guess that&#8217;s what you can expect when there are thousands and thousands of fireworks going off all over the city.<\/p>\n<p>It was almost hard to breathe when we were outside and the neighbourhood fireworks were going off because the wind seemed to carry all the smoke right towards us.<\/p>\n<p>It was worth it though! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how we started ringing the New Year this year.&nbsp; Looking through a rainy window wondering if we want to go outside or not. It wasn&#8217;t freezing cold like the last few years, it was actually surprisingly warm (about 11 degrees Celsius), but it looked generally nasty outside. I was so disappointed&#8230; the fireworks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}