{"id":10016,"date":"2017-10-07T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2017-10-07T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T15:34:19","slug":"another-czech-tidy-town-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2017\/10\/07\/another-czech-tidy-town-to-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Czech tidy town to visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Czech village of Louka, in southern Moravia, one\u00a090-year-old\u00a0<\/span>woman volunteers to beautify the homes of her neighbors.\u00a0Agnes Kasparkova is a former farmer who picked up a new hobby in her retirement\u2014painting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>She uses her spare time to paint traditional Moravian motifs in bright\u00a0blue-ultramarine across the walls of Louka’s buildings.<\/span>\"Agnes<\/p>\n

More photos at\u00a0http:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/grandma-paints-houses-louka\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Czech village of Louka, in southern Moravia, one\u00a090-year-old\u00a0woman volunteers to beautify the homes of her neighbors.\u00a0Agnes Kasparkova is a former farmer who picked up a new hobby in her retirement\u2014painting.\u00a0\u00a0She uses her spare time to paint traditional Moravian … Continue reading →<\/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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MK34-2By","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":884,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2013\/05\/16\/czech-beer-nation\/","url_meta":{"origin":10016,"position":0},"title":"Czech Beer Nation","author":"Michael","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the first day of the two week long Czech Beer Festival which I will write about after attending. \u00a0Publicity for it allowed me to discover this video from 2010. \u00a0Watch it and you will go a long way in understanding the Czech people. 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