{"id":576,"date":"2007-07-19T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/19\/brugge-by-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T01:38:29","slug":"brugge-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/19\/brugge-by-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brugge by day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely afternoon on Tuesday. The highlight was a 320-step climb up that 13th Century Brugge belfry. Here&#8217;s what the tower looks like by day:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tower_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/tower_cv.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nWe adults were quite winded. Our 6- and 9-year olds were pretty much unaffected by gravity. They practically floated to the top. On the way down, I tried to convince my youngest that we were actually heading up to the top now and nearly there, nearly there. He seemed to almost buy it. Or at least, to buy that I bought it. Below a certain weight, gravity appears to be substantially a state of mind.<br \/>\nThe square looked lovely from about halfway up:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halfway_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/halfway_cv.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nThe only thing marring the view was the presence of my nemesis, the Portsmouth City Youth Band Brass Ensemble. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll spot them in the bandstand. Why do they think it&#8217;s so funny to follow me around the world, performing &#8220;Theme from Goldfinger&#8221; wherever I go?<br \/>\nPortsmouth City Youth Band Brass Ensemble: Total. Jerks.<br \/>\nIn other news, all the legends are true. The people of Brugge really are paved with gold:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gold_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/gold_cv.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely afternoon on Tuesday. The highlight was a 320-step climb up that 13th Century Brugge belfry. Here&#8217;s what the tower looks like by day: We adults were quite winded. Our 6- and 9-year olds were pretty much unaffected by gravity. They practically floated to the top. On the way down, I tried to convince my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}