{"id":508,"date":"2009-04-26T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obliquepanic.net\/?p=508"},"modified":"2022-03-05T17:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T17:05:38","slug":"trip-to-aarhus-for-a-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/trip-to-aarhus-for-a-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Aarhus for a Confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I rode the 180 mile round trip to Aarhus to join Niels in his 13 year old son&#8217;s Confirmation. This is a big family event involving a church ceremony followed by a lavish party with speeches and songs &#8211; about Albert, his son. It was a real insight into Danish family culture. People were hugely generous and went out of their way to speak English to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/3497358748\/in\/album-72157617129415229\/\" title=\"Niels reading out\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3630\/3497358748_7432de1256_o.jpg\" width=\"2304\" height=\"3072\" alt=\"Niels reading out\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obliquepanic\/3496538725\/in\/album-72157617129415229\/\" title=\"In the church\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3633\/3496538725_0f19578192_o.jpg\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" alt=\"In the church\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the way back I tapped in the wrong address to my GPS. I put in the address I&#8217;d just come from instead of the hotel in Odense. As a result I got badly confused and in fact ended up turning into a junction going the wrong way in the traffic. It was a really ragged period of riding &#8211; but I made it back in once piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journey detail: 180miles Average speed 55.3mph; max 92.9mph; moving time 3 hours 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I rode the 180 mile round trip to Aarhus to join Niels in his 13 year old son&#8217;s Confirmation. This is a big family event involving a church ceremony followed by a lavish party with speeches and songs &#8211; about Albert, his son. It was a real insight into Danish family culture. People were&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/trip-to-aarhus-for-a-confirmation\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trip to Aarhus for a Confirmation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-cinema"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}