{"id":377,"date":"2005-07-23T04:28:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2005-07-24T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:48:15","slug":"peace-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Peace Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='wp-content\/uploads\/kotr664a.jpg' alt='The Peace Tower' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two hours later and I&#8217;m just on the outer edge of Diksmuide, stop #4. I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know where 2 and 3 are &#8212; the street was closed and it took a bit to<br \/>\ncircumnavigate the closed area. I either need a navigator or a driver! It&#8217;s<br \/>\nsometimes hard to do both.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Gate includes a tall 84 meter tower, 22 floors. It turns out the<br \/>\nelevator goes up, but you have to walk down as the museum is on the floors<br \/>\nas you descend. I&#8217;m pretty sure there was information about this, but not<br \/>\nin English! While some of the museum was about the two wars, most was<br \/>\ndedicated to the Flemish separatists who were striving for an independent,<br \/>\nDutch speaking state. While the history was somewhat interesting, there was<br \/>\nvery little in English (not surprising considering the subject matter). So<br \/>\n&#8212; on to the next stop: Death Passage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nSent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hours later and I&#8217;m just on the outer edge of Diksmuide, stop #4. I don&#8217;t know where 2 and 3 are &#8212; the street was closed and it took a bit to circumnavigate the closed area. I either need a navigator or a driver! It&#8217;s sometimes hard to do both. The Peace Gate includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peace Gate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels","category-world-war-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}