{"id":45,"date":"2007-10-02T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/02\/swiss-industry\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T22:26:51","slug":"swiss-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/02\/swiss-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All trip long, the famous Swiss meticulousness did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most chalets were of the traditional style, with shutters, overhanging roofs, and a prominent gable or two; flower gardens exploded autumn&#8217;s pretense with color.<\/li>\n<li>I could set my watch by the trains, the buses, and the local shops&#8217; opening hours.<\/li>\n<li>By homes, small cow sheds, and stopping points along major trails, wood was invariably stacked, cross-hatched, covered with corrugated iron, awaiting its chance to warm a hearth.<\/li>\n<li>Bergweg signposts, white-red-white, stood proudly along mountain trails, ready to remain visible in feet of snow to come.<\/li>\n<li>As the train from Gstaad descends into Zweisimmen, it makes a hairpin turn in a tunnel.\u00a0 My wife thinks the engineers were drinking one day and challenged each other to pull off the u-ee.\u00a0 If so, such gambling is common:\u00a0 from Gstaad to Montreux we were treated to additional 180&#8217;s on buried tracks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this impressiveness noted, toward the end of our hike from Lenk to Lauenen, we passed a small old man in a stocking cap fighting to saw a 2&#215;4 by hand.\u00a0 The place was no idyll for the poor, and a century had somehow passed him by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All trip long, the famous Swiss meticulousness did not disappoint. Most chalets were of the traditional style, with shutters, overhanging roofs, and a prominent gable or two; flower gardens exploded autumn&#8217;s pretense with color. I could set my watch by the trains, the buses, and the local shops&#8217; opening hours. By homes, small cow sheds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,608,990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote","category-opinion","category-vision"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}