{"id":26899,"date":"2017-01-11T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=26899"},"modified":"2017-08-14T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:58:41","slug":"tommy-wieringa-honorary-cossack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/tommy-wieringa\/tommy-wieringa-honorary-cossack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Wieringa &#8211; Honorary Cossack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>This is the work of a flaneur, of a tourist and a traveller, of someone who wanders the earth with the motto \u2018a walking dog finds bones\u2019. In the Ukrainian steppe, Tommy Wieringa is dubbed an honorary Cossack by a drunken Cossack, in Vienna he goes in search of an illustrious doppelganger and in St Catherine\u2019s Monastery in Sinai he becomes the false bride of Christ. He is a hotel-dweller who writes with relish about wretched accommodation and restaurateurs who hate their clientele. No destination is so miserable that a story cannot be found in it.<\/p>\n<p>Wieringa\u2019s earlier travel stories were praised as \u2018delightful anecdotes, important and chance meetings, taking us to places we\u2019ll never go, with a gift for observation that lends everything a deeply human feel. Travel as adventure, open-minded, receptive to the unexpected. That is the effect a born writer can have on us.\u2019 That flag is now flying proudly above Honorary Cossack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book This is the work of a flaneur, of a tourist and a traveller, of someone who wanders the earth with the motto \u2018a walking dog finds bones\u2019. In the Ukrainian steppe, Tommy Wieringa is dubbed an honorary Cossack by a drunken Cossack, in Vienna he goes in search of an illustrious doppelganger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":26903,"parent":17535,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26899","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26899\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/26903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}