{"id":573879911,"date":"2010-05-21T23:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573879911"},"modified":"2010-06-10T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:16:38","slug":"573879911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/573879911\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome, Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Roman Colosseum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/honeymoon\/rome1\/honeymoon05.jpg\" alt=\"The Roman Colosseum\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roman Colosseum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incredibly full and busy day. We say the Colosseum &#8212; understated in size in person, but only a third of it remains for modern eyes. We walked up to Palatine Hill, the central hill of Rome, and the forum. We visited a little museum, stopped by the Piazza del Campidoglio and the Victor Emmanuel monument.<\/p>\n<p>We took in an incredible view from the rooftop. I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/honeymoon\/rome1\/rome_panorama1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">hasty panorama<\/a>. (Magnify and scroll left.)<\/p>\n<p>We took in the Pantheon, which is the oldest imposing structure around (and still boasts the world&#8217;s largest unsupported concrete dome). It was built in the 1st Century and became a Catholic church in the 13th.\u00a0 The first two kings of Italy. Renaissance artist Raphael and others are buried here. It is the most alive place we&#8217;ve been today.<\/p>\n<p>We had dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Restaurant_Review-g187791-d1086875-Reviews-Trattoria_Der_Pallaro-Rome_Lazio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trattoria der Pallaro<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/travelstore.ricksteves.com\/catalog\/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&amp;theParentId=155&amp;id=60\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Steves <\/a>says is &#8220;a well-worn eatery that has no menu, has a slogan: &#8216;Here you&#8217;ll eat what we want to feed you.&#8217; Paolo Fazi &#8212; with a towel wrapped around her head turban-style &#8212;\u00a0 and her family serve up a five-course meal of typically Roman food, including wine, coffee and a tasty mandarin juice finale. As many locals return day after day, each evening features a different menu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They brought us olives, cured beef, the best salami ever, lentils, an unidentified vegetable, rigatoni and roasted pork loin.<\/p>\n<p>Steves knows his business. This place was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>More pictures (almost 70 of them) can be found in the new, and rapidly growing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/honeymoon\/rome1\/\" target=\"_blank\">honeymoon gallery<\/a>. There could be a brief video forthcoming too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow<\/strong>: The Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly full and busy day. We say the Colosseum &#8212; understated in size in person, but only a third of it remains for modern eyes. We walked up to Palatine Hill, the central hill of Rome, and the forum. We visited a little museum, stopped by the Piazza del Campidoglio and the Victor Emmanuel monument. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573879911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-honeymoon","category-photo","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573879911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573879911"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573879911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573879933,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573879911\/revisions\/573879933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573879911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573879911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573879911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}