{"id":1781,"date":"2013-07-10T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2013-08-08T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:51:39","slug":"staubach-falls-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Staubach Falls &#8211; Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div><strong>From:<\/strong> Cori Hill &lt;<a href=\"mailto:cronie507@gmail.com\">cronie507@gmail.com<\/a>&gt;<br \/><strong>Date:<\/strong>  June 26, 2013 2:40:24 AM EDT<br \/><strong>To:<\/strong> &quot;<a href=\"mailto:john.cohn@us.ibm.com\">john.cohn@us.ibm.com<\/a>&quot; &lt;<a href=\"mailto:john.cohn@us.ibm.com\">john.cohn@us.ibm.com<\/a>&gt;<br \/><strong>Subject:<\/strong>  <strong>Sam stones<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span>John<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was great to see you in the  airport. What a coincidence &#8211; just days before we headed to Europe with the  honor and responsibility to place three Sam Stones.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I wanted to write to thank you for the  experience. It was quite emotional for our family &#8211; me in particular.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dan and Cori placed the first two. One in a  tree in the Mirabelle gardens in Salzburg &#8211; a beautiful city. The second in the  gardens of the Hohenschwangeau (sp?) castle &#8211; boyhood home of King Ludwig who  built the Disney inspiring castle he never lived in.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The third inspired this note. I placed it at  the base of the Staubach falls in the Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland &#8211; a  remarkably stunning place. We have had less than optimal weather &#8211; completely  clouded over blocking all views of the Alps three highest peaks. I was feeling a  bit down but this placed it all in perspective for me. It simply did not matter  &#8211; I was with my family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thank  you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bill, Cori, Dan and  Seldon<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/6_Lauterbrunnen_Switzerland_Staubbach_Falls.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"6_Lauterbrunnen_Switzerland_Staubbach_Falls.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/7_Lauterbrunnen_Switzerland_Staubbach_Falls.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"7_Lauterbrunnen_Switzerland_Staubbach_Falls.JPG\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Cori Hill &lt;cronie507@gmail.com&gt;Date: June 26, 2013 2:40:24 AM EDTTo: &quot;john.cohn@us.ibm.com&quot; &lt;john.cohn@us.ibm.com&gt;Subject: Sam stones John It was great to see you in the airport. What a coincidence &#8211; just days before we headed to Europe with the honor and responsibility to place three Sam Stones. I wanted to write to thank you for the experience. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":46.5956764,"longitude":7.9076538,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}