{"id":429,"date":"2014-03-17T16:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:55:46","slug":"the-caesar-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/2014\/03\/17\/the-caesar-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caesar Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we traced the rise and fall of the Roman empire. The &#8220;rise and fall&#8221; meant lots of walking up and down stairs.<br \/>\nBut it was worth it. We saw the Colosseum. Wow! It was really very easy to visualize the action there: the gladiators, the crowds, the lions, the Christians. Truth is really stranger than fiction.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_20140317_035837.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20140317_035837.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_20140317_035837.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Then we visited the Roman Forum. Fascinating! My favorite spot was the palace of the vestal virgins. If they didn&#8217;t make it through thirty years of abstinence, they were buried alive with a loaf of bread and a lamp. ?? Again, truth is stranger than fiction.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_20140317_052336.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20140317_052336.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_20140317_052336.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The weather continues to be incredible! We&#8217;re told by the locals that this is unusual, that March is usually rainy. But we just had that first evening of rain and then sun ever since. As my sainted mother used to say, &#8220;bad start, good finish.&#8221; That&#8217;s been true so far for this trip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s day so we&#8217;re heading out to the only Irish bar in the area, Mad Jacks. :):)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we traced the rise and fall of the Roman empire. The &#8220;rise and fall&#8221; meant lots of walking up and down stairs. But it was worth it. We saw the Colosseum. Wow! It was really very easy to visualize the action there: the gladiators, the crowds, the lions, the Christians. Truth is really stranger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}