As children my father’s idea of winter sport was to take his three boys hiking on the ice of the swift-running river that ran in front of our Sinyang home. He looked for areas of thin ice that would crackle as he crossed it — Once across my oldest brother Gerhard made the trip, next Henry and finally Arthur trembling and perhaps crying. This reinforces the message to our own grandchildren that Nesses are, as I mentioned before, not necessarily smart and certainly not careful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As children my father’s idea of winter sport was to take his three boys hiking on the ice of the swift-running river that ran in front of our Sinyang home. He looked for areas of thin ice that would crackle as he crossed it — Once across my oldest brother Gerhard made the trip, next… Continue reading On Thin Ice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}