{"id":42906,"date":"2017-06-16T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42906"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:59:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:59:27","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-berner-oberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/kiefer-sutherland-berner-oberland.html","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland in the Berner Oberland"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42907\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/TC_17__header_1920px-v1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42907\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42907\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/TC_17__header_1920px-v1-1024x169.jpg\" alt=\"Interlaken Trucker Festival\" width=\"594\" height=\"98\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Interlaken? Really? Seriously?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At night, in Grindelwald, after very full days and after evenings spent out on our patio watching the sunlight dim and then disappear on the Eiger Nordwand, and after I\u2019d done a bit of blogging and other writing, my wife and I took to binge-watching an episode or three every night of\u00a0<em>Designated Survivor<\/em> on my computer. \u00a0(I was briefly a <em>24<\/em> addict, too.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42908\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/Web_TC14_Schild_Tickets_D.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42908\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42908\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/06\/Web_TC14_Schild_Tickets_D.png\" alt=\"The Festival's mascot\" width=\"439\" height=\"344\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the omnipresent posters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it was fun to see posters around Interlaken and Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald itself advertising, of all things, an International Trucker &amp; Country Festival, 23-25 June \u2014 especially one that includes Kiefer Sutherland as one of the guest artists:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trucker-festival.ch\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.trucker-festival.ch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Line dancing! \u00a01400 trucks! \u00a0Swiss men and women wearing cowboy hats in the middle of the Alps!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t realized that this Festival has been going on since, I think, 1994. \u00a0I would have found it virtually unthinkable back in the 1300s, when I served in Interlaken and Switzerland as a missionary. \u00a0Funny!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we\u2019ll miss it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 At night, in Grindelwald, after very full days and after evenings spent out on our patio watching the sunlight dim and then disappear on the Eiger Nordwand, and after I\u2019d done a bit of blogging and other writing, my wife and I took to binge-watching an episode or three every night of\u00a0Designated Survivor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kiefer Sutherland in the Berner Oberland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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