{"id":249,"date":"2007-12-10T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-11-23T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:32:35","slug":"home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/home-sweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home sweet home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel2.jpg\" alt=\"basel2.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel1.jpg\" alt=\"basel1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/basel3.jpg\" alt=\"basel3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Basel, Switzerland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to have the chance to spend the past few days back in my childhood haunts, in and around <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basel\" target=\"_blank\">Basel<\/a>. It\u2019s been a few years since I\u2019ve been back, and I\u2019d forgotten how much I miss the place (with its unique sights, sounds, and smells)\u2026 roasted chestnuts, mulled wine, tasteful shop-window displays, friendly families out on the town\u2026 brought back many happy memories. I was also able to cram in quick visits to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loerrach\" target=\"_blank\">L\u00f6rrach<\/a> (where I also lived for a half dozen years), to my brother Phil\u2019s (he and his spirited family live in Binzen, just down the road from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vitra_Design_Museum\" target=\"_blank\">Vitra Design Museum<\/a> [Frank Gehry\u2019s first structure in Europe]), and to Black Forest Academy, the school I attended for many years. Ah, sweet yesteryear\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Basel, Switzerland I was delighted to have the chance to spend the past few days back in my childhood haunts, in and around Basel. It\u2019s been a few years since I\u2019ve been back, and I\u2019d forgotten how much I miss the place (with its unique sights, sounds, and smells)\u2026 roasted chestnuts, mulled wine, tasteful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,10,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17083,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/17083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}