{"id":1303,"date":"2011-07-10T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?page_id=1303"},"modified":"2012-12-16T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T12:10:03","slug":"switzerland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?page_id=1303","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the view from Schilthorn, which is one of the tallest Alps, and where On His Majesty’s Secret Service was filmed.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Here’s the general area.\u00a0 We’re about 20 minutes outside of Z\u00fcrich.\u00a0 Wetzikon is a large town for Switzerland, having a bit more than 10,000 people.\u00a0 In the time we have been here, Wetzikon graduated from a Gemeinde \u2013 or commune \u2013 to a city.<\/p>\n

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This is our neighborhood.\u00a0 The church tower you see there chimes on the quarter hour.<\/p>\n

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\"\"There are many cows in Switzerland.\u00a0 It’s not the most economical animal, and the cow is, among other reasons, why the Swiss aren’t in the WTO.\u00a0 The Swiss have a number of trade barriers in place relating to agriculture.\u00a0 This is because there is a concern that removal of those barriers will be the downfall of mountain-side family farming.\u00a0 Cows on a mountain are particularly uneconomical.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We do tend to get some snow.\u00a0 There are lots of little slay hills all over Switzerland.\u00a0 This little one is about 10 minutes’ drive from our house.\u00a0 There is also a small ski lift.\u00a0 The astute will spot me in this photo.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This is Grossmunster, which is a church in Z\u00fcrich.\u00a0 Switzerland has a lot of churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This is the view from Schilthorn, which is one of the tallest Alps, and where On His Majesty’s Secret Service was filmed.     Here’s the general area.\u00a0 We’re about 20 minutes outside of Z\u00fcrich.\u00a0 Wetzikon is a large town for Switzerland, having a bit more than 10,000 people.\u00a0 In the time we have … Continue reading “Switzerland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1303\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}