{"id":133,"date":"2012-07-02T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:47:36","slug":"weekdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/07\/02\/weekdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you have read our earlier blog entries: our wonderful weekend adventures.\u00a0\u00a0Our weekdays, however,\u00a0are not so exceptional.\u00a0 Jon is working as he would back home, with all the challenges and frustrations that has always entailed.\u00a0 I (Mary Carol) am living the quiet life, where the nearly daily trip to the grocery store is my big thrill.\u00a0 I have begun to accept the high prices of food.\u00a0 Of course, I try to shop carefully, but when I get to the counter, I just stick Jon\u2019s credit card in the slot and press \u201cok\u201d, barely looking at the total.\u00a0 We have TV, mostly watching either BBC or recorded shows from our home set via slingbox.<\/p>\n

Jon has joined two choruses so some nights he\u2019s off to Bern to rehearse.\u00a0 Occasional Thursdays he or we join a few Autodesk employees who hang out in Turnhalle, a cafe-bar in downtown Bern.<\/p>\n

\"Jon<\/a>

Jon in Cantos Classico<\/p><\/div>\n

I water my few veggies on the balcony, spend some hours every day researching possibilities for our trips, listen to a little German TV or translate part of the newspaper, and often partake of that most popular Swiss activity: walking.\u00a0 Jon and I are starting to say the Swiss drive and ride bikes like they have no place to go but walk like they do.\u00a0 Nordic walking\u2014with poles and a sense of determination\u2014seems quite common.<\/p>\n

\"Balcony<\/a>

My balcony mini-garden<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you have read our earlier blog entries: our wonderful weekend adventures.\u00a0\u00a0Our weekdays, however,\u00a0are not so exceptional.\u00a0 Jon is working as he would back home, with all the challenges and frustrations that has always entailed.\u00a0 I (Mary Carol) am living … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guemligen","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}