{"id":3337,"date":"2016-12-17T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2016-12-17T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T17:29:44","slug":"village-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Village Opening\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Village Opening marks the official start of the winter season here in Wengen. The shops set up stalls and we cruise around town eating mince pies and cheese, and drinking gluwein and Irish coffee. It&#8217;s a bit quiet this year as most of the hotels don&#8217;t open until next weekend.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-1180248290jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-1180248290jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3332 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-824777987jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-824777987jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3333 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-758480000jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-758480000jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3335 alignnone size-full\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-1700492504jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/wpid-wp-image-1700492504jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3336 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1125\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still no sign of snow, but it is getting colder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Village Opening marks the official start of the winter season here in Wengen. The shops set up stalls and we cruise around town eating mince pies and cheese, and drinking gluwein and Irish coffee. It&#8217;s a bit quiet this year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}