{"id":2768,"date":"2004-12-20T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/12\/20\/dowbrigades-european-vacation\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T16:15:36","slug":"dowbrigades-european-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/20\/dowbrigades-european-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade&#8217;s European Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4333'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\">   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/lsexshow.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" align=\"left\">The Dowbrigade is currently<br \/>\n        involved in the very tricky planning for a projected Family European<br \/>\n        Vacation, slated to take place sometime in the spring.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">AT this point, the &quot;family&quot; consists of yours truly,<br \/>\n        No. 2 wife and No. 2 son. The only problem, is that these<br \/>\n        two dear individuals, so positive and peaceful under normal circumstances,<br \/>\n        turn into Mike Tyson and Andrew Golata after five minutes in the same<br \/>\n        room,and the Dowbrigade has no desire to spend his vacation as a referee.&nbsp; Plus,<br \/>\n        their interests and pleasures are so different that it is hard to imagine<br \/>\n        any<br \/>\n        tourist-type activity that could captivate them both. We can see ourself<br \/>\n        frantically running, Lucyesque, from the Resin D&#8217;etre Hash Bar to the<br \/>\n        Dutch Tulip Hothouse and Wooden Shoe Museum. A recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And we can forget about R &amp; R respite in the famous<br \/>\n        Red Light District.&nbsp; According to an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&amp;story_id=14924&amp;name=Pizza%2Bcourier%2B%27targeted%27%2BAmsterdam%2Bsex%2Bzone\">Expatica<\/a>, an ex-pat<br \/>\n        web site, a cell of Islamic extremists are targeting the famous paid-love<br \/>\n        zone for its capitalist, consumerist, sexual and cultural connotations.<br \/>\n        We may also have to stay away from Pizza for the duration&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">AMSTERDAM  Justice authorities arrested a Moroccan<br \/>\n           pizza deliveryman last month after receiving a tip-off that Islamic extremists<br \/>\n          were allegedly planning an attack on the Red Light District in Amsterdam,<br \/>\n            it was reported on Friday..Muslim extremists, the paper said, were<br \/>\n            allegedly furious at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dowbrigade is currently involved in the very tricky planning for a projected Family European Vacation, slated to take place sometime in the spring. AT this point, the &quot;family&quot; consists of yours truly, No. 2 wife and No. 2 son. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/20\/dowbrigades-european-vacation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}