{"id":2607,"date":"2014-06-27T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2014-07-07T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:10:39","slug":"2014-holiday-amazing-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"2014 Holiday: Amazing Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America is a relatively new country and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have centuries old buildings, especially not here in Alaska where most building were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s.  I really enjoyed the variety of architecture we saw on our trip.  Here are some of my favorites.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-4-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-4-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nGrote Kerk (Church) in Haarlem<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-5-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-5-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-IMG_5598-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5598-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nInterior of Grote Kerk and interior of Rolduc Abbey Kerk<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-2-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-2-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-3-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-3-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nOur hotel in Amsterdam and a neat building in Haarlem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA shopping mall that used to be a post office in Amsterdam.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-IMG_5635-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5635-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSpires in Maastricht, a city in Holland where we had a wonderful river cruise and dinner<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-photo-7-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-photo-7-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nKoelner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) in Germany<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wpid-IMG_5729-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5729-2014-06-27-17-52.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThis cathedral in Cologne took over 600 years to complete. I appreciate the talent that went into the ornate details, but I kept wondering what else could have been created instead of adding more to this building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is a relatively new country and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have centuries old buildings, especially not here in Alaska where most building were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. I really enjoyed the variety of architecture we saw on our trip. Here are some of my favorites. Grote Kerk (Church) in Haarlem Interior of Grote Kerk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}