{"id":469,"date":"2016-03-25T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=469"},"modified":"2016-03-25T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:25:03","slug":"piazza-and-first-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/piazza-and-first-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Piazza and First Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3605.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[469]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3605.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This old fountain in Palermo was full of gods and goddesses. It was interesting to see the pick-and-choose pantheon represented by the artist. While some very minor characters &#8211; nymphs, triton &#8211; were depicted, some major gods &#8211; Zeus? &#8211; were left out. I guess some gods make better statues than others.<\/p>\n<p>Later on we went to a public garden, near the shore. This garden was amazing; beautifully kept hedges in geometric design, tasteful statuary, and no litter. And all for free?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3616.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[469]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3616.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3615.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[469]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/img_3615.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;Also check out these paintings of Xenophon and Solon in the doge&#8217;s palace! &#x1f31e;<\/p>\n<p>Angus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This old fountain in Palermo was full of gods and goddesses. It was interesting to see the pick-and-choose pantheon represented by the artist. While some very minor characters &#8211; nymphs, triton &#8211; were depicted, some major gods &#8211; Zeus? &#8211; were left out. I guess some gods make better statues than others. Later on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sicily","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}