{"id":16237,"date":"2009-07-02T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16237"},"modified":"2009-07-02T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:11:08","slug":"scavenger-hunt-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/scavenger-hunt-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavenger Hunt in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16238\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/600_dutch_women_amsterdam.dimitra_+web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16238\" title=\"Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/600_dutch_women_amsterdam.dimitra_+web.jpg?resize=600%2C418&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue.\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/600_dutch_women_amsterdam.dimitra_+web.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/600_dutch_women_amsterdam.dimitra_+web.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Eric Francis \/ Book of Blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">Let&#8217;s switch countries for a moment, as I dive through old photo files. I spent  a lot of time taking pictures in the Netherlands, in particular, in Holland. It  was the place that I would go to feel like I was at home in Europe; the place  that most closely matched my temperament and my hobbies. I started with a couple  of trips to Amsterdam, which is a good place to stretch out your mind, then I  branched out to The Hague, Utrecht and many small towns, which I would discover  getting off the train in random places. This photo was taken on my second trip  to Amsterdam, in the spring of 2005. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">The women, who apparently work for the same company, are playing a work-related scavenger hunt  game on a Saturday afternoon in the center of the city. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">It&#8217;s one of my favorite street photos ever.  The <\/span><\/span>woman on the right is named Dimitra<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">; it&#8217;s something  about the look in her eyes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s switch countries for a moment, as I dive through old photo files. I spent a lot of time taking pictures in the Netherlands, in particular, in Holland. It was the place that I would go to feel like I was at home in Europe; the place that most closely matched my temperament and my &#8230; <a title=\"Scavenger Hunt in Amsterdam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/scavenger-hunt-in-amsterdam\/\" aria-label=\"More on Scavenger Hunt in Amsterdam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[423,1515,1801,1514],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}