{"id":2,"date":"2005-09-16T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T07:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/?p=2"},"modified":"2005-09-18T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T00:58:30","slug":"the-roads-to-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"The Roads to Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many places in the world to go see.  It&#8217;s always nice to see places in Italy, since every evening is likely to have great Italian food.  And it&#8217;s especially nice to take a break from the empty space where our kitchen used to be.<\/p>\n<p>This time we&#8217;re going to see Tunisia, home of many <strike>Carthaginian<\/strike> Roman ruins and the major inspiration for lots of the landscape in Star Wars.  We&#8217;ll be going to the real Tatouine.  There&#8217;s a silly annular eclipse near there, which I suppose is why we&#8217;re going there now.  Then we&#8217;ll stop on Malta, and spend way too little time on Sicily, at Pompeii, and on Sardinia.  We&#8217;ll finally see the tower in Pisa, and then hit the Italian autobahns, zooming to the Istrian peninsula currently owned by Croatia and represented in San Francisco by <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.citysearch.com\/profile\/917613\/san_francisco_ca\/al bona_ristorante_istriano.html\">Albona Ristorante Istriano<\/a>.  A few days there, a few days in Venice, and it&#8217;ll be time for me to come home and go back to work.  Ray will visit friends in Romania and go back to work on the kitchen a couple weeks later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many places in the world to go see. It&#8217;s always nice to see places in Italy, since every evening is likely to have great Italian food. And it&#8217;s especially nice to take a break from the empty space where our kitchen used to be. This time we&#8217;re going to see Tunisia, home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apresmidi.net\/italy2005\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}