{"id":67,"date":"2008-06-07T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/06\/60-years-together\/"},"modified":"2008-06-07T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T21:25:00","slug":"60-years-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/06\/60-years-together\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Years Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we headed into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Limburg_%28Netherlands%29\">Limburg<\/a> for a celebration of Ivo&#8217;s paternal grandparents&#8217; 60th anniversary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijzerenpaard.nl\/px\/simpelveld.jpg\">Limburg is very pretty<\/a>, with actual hills and cute villages &#8211; it&#8217;s where Ivo&#8217;s parents come from &#8211; neighbouring villages in the former coal mining region &#8211; his grandparents on both sides worked in the mines.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was nice, at a restaurant understandably named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr-bellevue.nl\/index2.html\">Bellevue<\/a>. It was a little hard to understand his family since they speak Limburgs, a dialect of Dutch, and even when they speak regular Dutch they have strong accents &#8211; they didn&#8217;t speak much English. When I got in the car to go home with Ivo&#8217;s sister I just said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t speak any more Dutch &#8211; that was hard!&#8221; and she got to practice her English on the way home.<\/p>\n<p>But here is the family &#8211; Ivo&#8217;s dad&#8217;s two siblings on the left (brother first and sister third), with their partners (his brother&#8217;s wife is 4th in), and Ivo&#8217;s grandparents at the end. Ivo&#8217;s sister Evian is next to me and his dad is beside him.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/summer08\/slides\/IMG_2637.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/photos\/summer08\/slides\/IMG_2637.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we headed into Limburg for a celebration of Ivo&#8217;s paternal grandparents&#8217; 60th anniversary. Limburg is very pretty, with actual hills and cute villages &#8211; it&#8217;s where Ivo&#8217;s parents come from &#8211; neighbouring villages in the former coal mining region &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/2008\/06\/60-years-together\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/copperlioness.com\/pannencakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}