{"id":723,"date":"2010-02-27T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-02-27T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:34:35","slug":"vadstena-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2010\/02\/27\/vadstena-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vadstena in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents came for a visit last weekend with Iain and Adele.  The weather wasn&#8217;t great, with snow-chaos on Saturday and extremely low temperatures on Sunday.  Apparently Saturday had the greatest snowfall since the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cold Sunday was a nice sunny day, so we went on an outing to Vadstena:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/Castle_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/Castle_t.jpg\" title=\"Vadstena castle in winter.\" alt=\"Looking across a frozen moat to the entrance of a castle.  Above the entrance archway the sun shines through windows.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lake V\u00e4ttern was both frozen and covered in snow and it was pretty cold wandering around.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/VatternFrozen_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/VatternFrozen_t.jpg\" title=\"Lake V\u00e4ttern frozen and covered in snow, from Vadstena.\" alt=\"A white surface stretches out into the distance.  On the left a promontory reaches out into the lake.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/CastleAndLake_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/CastleAndLake_t.jpg\" title=\"Vadstena castle and the frozen lake V\u00e4ttern.\" alt=\"A path through snow leads up the middle of the picture.  On the left is a castle seen through trees.  On the right is a frozen and snow-covered lake.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/StatueInSnow_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/ParentsVisitFeb10\/StatueInSnow_t.jpg\" title=\"Statue in the park beside the castle, Vadstena.\" alt=\"In the background part of a castle is lit by winter sun.  In front of it a childrens' playground sits among trees and snow.  In the foreground a statue of a woman looks down at the snow, her face lit by the reflected light.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents came for a visit last weekend with Iain and Adele. The weather wasn&#8217;t great, with snow-chaos on Saturday and extremely low temperatures on Sunday. Apparently Saturday had the greatest snowfall since the 1960s. Despite the cold Sunday was a nice sunny day, so we went on an outing to Vadstena: Lake V\u00e4ttern was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}