{"id":83,"date":"2004-05-25T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=83"},"modified":"2004-05-25T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T06:17:34","slug":"leiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/leiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Leiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leiden, 50 kilometers soutwhest of Amsterdam, is like a combination of UC Santa Barbara (bikes everywhere), Caltech (the piece of the Ariane 5 rocket engine being exhibited as a sculpture is a particularly nice geek touch), and some of the nicest towns I&#8217;ve visited in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is beautiful and cared for in the nicest possible way &#8211; not that sterile way you find in some places, but rather, the way that tells you a place is well-used and much loved; it is neat because people care.<\/p>\n<p>Between talk preparations and sleeping, I haven&#8217;t yet explored as much as I&#8217;d like, but it sure looks a great place for a workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leiden, 50 kilometers soutwhest of Amsterdam, is like a combination of UC Santa Barbara (bikes everywhere), Caltech (the piece of the Ariane 5 rocket engine being exhibited as a sculpture is a particularly nice geek touch), and some of the nicest towns I&#8217;ve visited in Europe. Everything is beautiful and cared for in the nicest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/leiden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leiden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}