{"id":13517,"date":"2011-04-02T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13517"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T05:30:11","slug":"more-sights-in-willemstad-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13517","title":{"rendered":"More Sights in Willemstad, Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was much to see and much to photograph in Willemstad, Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao .\u00a0 The Queen Juliana Bridge, one of the highest in the world, dominates the skyline in Willemstadt .\u00a0 As a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao pays homage to Queen Wilhelmina with a monument in Willemstad .\u00a0 In addition to the various queens of the Netherlands, Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao also reveres Nena Sanchez, a local artist who was Miss Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao in 1966 and was the island&#8217;s representative in the Miss Universe Pageant that year .\u00a0 Nena Sanchez is known for painting images of &#8220;The Blue Goddess&#8221; and street art near Nena&#8217;s gallery in Willemstad bears striking resemblance to Nena&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Goddess&#8221; .\u00a0 Finally, the Rif Fort, with walls 1.5 meters thick, was one of several forts built to defend Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Juliana-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13518\" title=\"The Queen Juliana Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Juliana-Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"The Queen Juliana Bridge\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Juliana-Bridge.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Juliana-Bridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Juliana-Bridge-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Queen Juliana Bridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The Queen Juliana Bridge (Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13519\" title=\"Queen Wilhelmina\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Wilhelmina\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Queen-Wilhelmina-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Queen Wilhelmina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Queen Wilhelmina\u00c2\u00a0(Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011 .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Blue-Goddess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13520\" title=\"The Blue Goddess\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Blue-Goddess.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Goddess\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Blue-Goddess.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Blue-Goddess-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Blue-Goddess-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/em>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The Blue\u00c2\u00a0Goddess\u00c2\u00a0(Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rif-Fort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13521\" title=\"The Rif Fort\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rif-Fort.jpg\" alt=\"The Rif Fort\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rif-Fort.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rif-Fort-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rif-Fort-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Rif Fort<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Rif Fort\u00c2\u00a0(Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was much to see and much to photograph in Willemstad, Cura\u00ed\u00a7ao .\u00a0 The Queen Juliana Bridge, one of the highest in the world, dominates the skyline in Willemstadt .\u00a0 As a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-13517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-caribbean-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13524,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}