{"id":1188,"date":"2023-07-13T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/?page_id=1188"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:33:25","slug":"over-ons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/over-ons\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1188\" class=\"elementor elementor-1188\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-527745f elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"527745f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ee651e\" data-id=\"0ee651e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc2fcb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc2fcb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1><strong>About us<\/strong><\/h1><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are Niels and Babette. We met in 2012 when Babette was still studying International Hospitalty Management in The Hague and Niels was a shell artist in Amsterdam. When an opportunity arose to open a B&amp;B in Haarlem a few years later, we grabbed it with both hands. An old building with a lot of history that needed to be completely renovated and furnished seemed right up our alley. We loved doing it. After 6 years of welcoming guests, the time came to look for a new project. When this building in Monnickendam came our way we fell in love and after a year of renovation we opened the doors of Fortuna Spinoza.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e739544 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e739544\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><strong style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-secondary ); font-size: 20px;\">Meaning of Fortuna Spinoza<\/strong><\/h2><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortuna was the goddess of chance, both luck and misfortune. Spinoza found his god in nature and tried to explain the world that way. Fortune and misfortune are both natural phenomena. Embrace both with Spinoza's rationalism and your life will be without ballast because you realize that nature determines, not you.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bae7683\" data-id=\"bae7683\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6249be5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6249be5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Spinoza-258x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1206\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Spinoza-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Spinoza.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5a5303 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c5a5303\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Fortuna-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1205\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Fortuna-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Fortuna.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over ons Wij zijn Niels en Babette. We ontmoetten elkaar in 2012 toen Babette nog op de hoge Hotelschool zat en Niels schelpenkunstenaar was. Toen een kans zich voor deed om een B&amp;B te openen in Haarlem een paar jaar later, hebben we die met beide handen aangegrepen. Een oud pand met veel historie dat [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fortunaspinoza.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}